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Code generation agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the software development paradigm. Distinct from previous code generation techniques, code generation agents are characterized by three core features. 1)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yihong Dong , Xue Jiang , Jiaru Qian , Tian Wang , Kechi Zhang , Zhi Jin , Ge Li

AI development is embracing open-source paradigm, but the fundamental distinction between AI models and traditional software artifacts may lead to a divergent open-source development paradigm with different collaborative practices, which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hengzhi Ye , Minghui Zhou

Modern LLM agents increasingly rely on reusable skills, and as they interact with personal applications, web browsers, and other interfaces, skill libraries can scale to thousands of skills. Scaling to larger skill sets introduces two key…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Dawei Liu , Zongxia Li , Hongyang Du , Xiyang Wu , Shihang Gui , Yongbei Kuang , Lichao Sun

Coding agents often pass per-prompt safety review yet ship exploitable code when their tasks are decomposed into routine engineering tickets. The challenge is structural: existing safety alignment evaluates overt requests in isolation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jonathan Steinberg , Oren Gal

In recent years, AI-based software engineering has progressed from pre-trained models to advanced agentic workflows, with Software Development Agents representing the next major leap. These agents, capable of reasoning, planning, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhi Chen , Lingxiao Jiang

The integration of AI agents as coding assistants into software development has raised questions about the long-term viability of AI agent-generated code. A prevailing hypothesis within the software engineering community suggests this code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Musfiqur Rahman , Emad Shihab

Open Source Software (OSS) development challenges traditional software engineering practices. In particular, OSS projects are managed by a large number of volunteers, working freely on the tasks they choose to undertake. OSS projects also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Warren Sack , Françoise Détienne , Nicholas Ducheneaut , Jean-Marie Burkhardt , Dilan Mahendran , Flore Barcellini

In this project, we test the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) dataset. This dataset serves as a representative benchmark for testing abstract reasoning abilities, requiring a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Liane Galanti , Ethan Baron

LLM-based agents are becoming central to software engineering tasks, yet evaluating them remains fragmented and largely model-centric. Existing studies overlook how architectural components, such as planners, memory, and tool routers, shape…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Débora Souza , Patrícia Machado

Large language models (LLMs) have shown success in handling simple games with imperfect information and enabling multi-agent coordination, but their ability to facilitate practical collaboration against other agents in complex, imperfect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yauwai Yim , Chunkit Chan , Tianyu Shi , Zheye Deng , Wei Fan , Tianshi Zheng , Yangqiu Song

Recently, the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has gained popularity as researchers are trying to develop artificial intelligence capable of efficient collective reasoning. Agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Adam Kostka , Jarosław A. Chudziak

As human-AI cooperation becomes increasingly prevalent, reliable instruments for assessing the subjective quality of cooperative human-AI interaction are needed. We introduce two theoretically grounded scales: the Perceived Cooperativity…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Christiane Attig , Christiane Wiebel-Herboth , Patricia Wollstadt , Tim Schrills , Mourad Zoubir , Thomas Franke

Recent work reports strong performance from multi-agent LLM systems (MAS), but these gains are often confounded by increased test-time computation. When computation is normalized, single-agent systems (SAS) can match or outperform MAS, yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dat Tran , Douwe Kiela

Collaborative activities among knowledge workers such as software developers underlie the development of modern society, but the in-depth understanding of their behavioral patterns in open online communities is very challenging. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Hongrui Wu , Xiaowan Shi , Yutao Ma

This chapter argues that the reliability of agentic and generative AI is chiefly an architectural property. We define agentic systems as goal-directed, tool-using decision makers operating in closed loops, and show how reliability emerges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Sławomir Nowaczyk

Large language models can consult information that fixed static analyzers cannot, such as documentation, current security advisories, version-specific metadata, and informal API contracts. This makes LLMs a compelling option for program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jacqueline L. Mitchell , Chao Wang

Code completion is widely used by software developers to provide coding suggestions given a partially written code snippet. Apart from the traditional code completion methods, which only support single token completion at minimal positions,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jingxuan Li , Rui Huang , Wei Li , Kai Yao , Weiguo Tan

When agents collaborate on a task, it is important that they have some shared mental model of the task routines -- the set of feasible plans towards achieving the goals. However, in reality, situations often arise that such a shared mental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yuening Zhang , Brian C. Williams

Open agentic systems combine LLM-based planning with external capabilities, persistent memory, and privileged execution. They are used in coding assistants, browser copilots, and enterprise automation. OpenClaw is a visible instance of this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shiping Chen , Qin Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Xu Wang , Liming Zhu

Agentic coding tools, such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, are transforming the software engineering landscape. These AI-powered systems function as autonomous teammates capable of planning and executing complex development tasks.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kosei Horikawa , Hao Li , Yutaro Kashiwa , Bram Adams , Hajimu Iida , Ahmed E. Hassan