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Autonomous coding agents are generating code at an unprecedented scale, with OpenAI Codex alone creating over 400,000 pull requests (PRs) in two months. As agentic PR volumes increase, code review agents (CRAs) have become routine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Kowshik Chowdhury , Dipayan Banik , K M Ferdous , Shazibul Islam Shamim

As AI becomes more "agentic," it faces technical and socio-legal issues it must address if it is to fulfill its promise of increased economic productivity and efficiency. This paper uses technical and legal perspectives to explain how…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mark O. Riedl , Deven R. Desai

As autonomous coding agents see rapid adoption, their evaluation has primarily focused on task completion rates holding the target codebase fixed. This leaves a critical question unanswered: does the structural and stylistic quality, or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Priyansh Trivedi , Olivier Schmitt

The arrival of large language models (LLMs) capable of multi-step reasoning, tool use, and long-horizon planning has produced a qualitative shift in software engineering. Where earlier code-completion tools such as GitHub Copilot operated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Happy Bhati

Despite coding agents' advances in handling increasingly complex tasks, their continued tendency to introduce unintended edits, subtle bugs, and scope drift that slip past code review means developers must still decide how much autonomy to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tanjal Shukla , K. J. Kevin Feng , Leijie Wang , Mohammad Rostami , Amy X. Zhang

Agentic systems, in which diverse agents cooperate to tackle challenging problems, are exploding in popularity in the AI community. However, existing agentic frameworks take a relatively narrow view of agents, apply a centralized model, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Alok Kamatar , J. Gregory Pauloski , Yadu Babuji , Ryan Chard , Mansi Sakarvadia , Daniel Babnigg , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

With the rise of generative AI, industry interest in software agents is growing. Given the stochastic nature of generative AI-based agents, their effective and safe deployment in organizations requires robust governance, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Hoang Vu , Nataliia Klievtsova , Henrik Leopold , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma , Timotheus Kampik

World wide technological advancement has brought in a widespread change in adoption and utilization of open source tools. Since, most of the organizations across the globe deal with a large amount of data to be updated online and…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-10-04 Sharon Christa , K. Lakshmi Madhuri , V. Suma

The primary value of AI agents in software development lies in their ability to extend the developer's capacity for reasoning and action, not to supplant human involvement. To showcase how to use agents working in tandem with developers, we…

Resolving team conflicts requires not only task-specific competence, but also social intelligence to find common ground and build consensus. As AI agents increasingly collaborate on complex work, they must develop coordination capabilities…

Coding agents have received significant adoption in software development recently. Unlike traditional LLM-based code completion tools, coding agents work with autonomy (e.g., invoking external tools) and leave visible traces in software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Andre Hora , Romain Robbes

AI-empowered tools have emerged as a transformative force, fundamentally reshaping the software development industry and promising far-reaching impacts across diverse sectors. This study investigates the adoption, impact, and security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Shidong Pan , Litian Wang , Tianyi Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Yanjie Zhao , Qinghua Lu , Xiaoyu Sun

Fine-tuning large language models for code editing has typically relied on mining commits and pull requests. The working hypothesis has been that commit messages describe human intent in natural language, and patches to code describe the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yangtian Zi , Zixuan Wu , Aleksander Boruch-Gruszecki , Jonathan Bell , Arjun Guha

Agentic AI systems are entering software engineering workflows, yet empirical evidence on how industrial organizations actually adopt them remains sparse. We present a qualitative interview study with sixteen practitioners across twelve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Spyridon Alvanakis Apostolou , Jan Bosch , Helena Holmström Olsson

AI agents are increasingly used in software development, yet their interaction with CI/CD configurations is not well studied. We analyze 8,031 agentic pull requests (PRs) from 1,605 GitHub repositories where AI agents touch YAML…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Taher A. Ghaleb

Adapting production-level computer vision tools to bespoke scientific datasets is a critical "last mile" bottleneck. Current solutions are impractical: fine-tuning requires large annotated datasets scientists often lack, while manual code…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuefei , Wang , Kai A. Horstmann , Ethan Lin , Jonathan Chen , Alexander R. Farhang , Sophia Stiles , Atharva Sehgal , Jonathan Light , David Van Valen , Yisong Yue , Jennifer J. Sun

The rapid adoption of AI-powered coding assistants is transforming software development practices, yet systematic comparisons of their effectiveness across different task types and over time remain limited. This paper presents an empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Giovanni Pinna , Jingzhi Gong , David Williams , Federica Sarro

Recently, Agentic AI has become an increasingly popular research field. However, we argue that current agent research practices lack standardization and scientific rigor, making it hard to conduct fair comparisons among methods. As a…

Infinite canvas platforms are becoming central to contemporary design practice, enabling designers to externalize cognition through the spatial arrangement of multimodal artifacts. As AI agents increasingly generate and organize content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yejin Yun , Seung Won Lee , Jiin Choi , Kyung Hoon Hyun

There is growing imprecision about what "AI agents" are, what they can do, and how effectively they can be used by their intended users. We pose two key research questions: (i) How does the tech industry conceive and market "AI agents"?…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pradyumna Shome , Sashreek Krishnan , Sauvik Das