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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to increase and evolve, including in software engineering (SE). This integration involves processes traditionally entrusted to humans, such as coding. However, the impact on…

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With the rapid rise of AI coding agents, the fundamental premise of what it means to be a software engineer is in question. In this vision paper, we re-examine what it means for an AI agent to be considered a software engineer and then…

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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

The transition from monolithic language models to modular, skill-equipped agents marks a defining shift in how large language models (LLMs) are deployed in practice. Rather than encoding all procedural knowledge within model weights, agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Renjun Xu , Yang Yan

AI agents -- systems that combine foundation models with reasoning, planning, memory, and tool use -- are rapidly becoming a practical interface between natural-language intent and real-world computation. This survey synthesizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Bin Xu

Engineering analysis automation in product development relies on rigid interfaces between tools, data formats and documented processes. When these interfaces change, as they routinely do as the product evolves in the engineering ecosystem,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Alejandro Pradas-Gomez , Arindam Brahma , Ola Isaksson

Reward engineering, the manual specification of reward functions to induce desired agent behavior, remains a fundamental challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning. This difficulty is amplified by credit assignment ambiguity,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Haoran Su , Yandong Sun , Congjia Yu

Agentic systems powered by large language models (LLMs) are becoming progressively more complex and capable. Their increasing agency and expanding deployment settings attract growing attention to effective governance policies, monitoring,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Garry A. Gabison , R. Patrick Xian

The landscape of software engineering is evolving rapidly amidst the digital transformation and the ascendancy of AI, leading to profound shifts in the role and responsibilities of software engineers. This evolution encompasses both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Stefanie Betz , Birgit Penzenstadler

As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve from code generators into collaborative partners for software engineers, our methods for evaluation are lagging. Current benchmarks, focused on code correctness, fail to capture the nuanced,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tao Dong , Harini Sampath , Ja Young Lee , Sherry Y. Shi , Andrew Macvean

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping software development, with growing emphasis on accelerating productivity and optimizing performance. However, excessive focus on such dimensions risks overlooking the critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mariam Guizani , Maduka Subasinghage , Sherlock A. Licorish , Sofia Ouhbi

Over-reliance on AI systems can undermine users' critical thinking and promote complacency, a risk intensified by the emergence of agentic AI systems that operate with minimal human involvement. In software engineering, agentic coding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Carlos Rafael Catalan , Lheane Marie Dizon , Patricia Nicole Monderin , Emily Kuang

For six decades, software engineering principles have been optimized for a single consumer: the human developer. The rise of agentic AI development, where LLM-based agents autonomously read, write, navigate, and debug codebases, introduces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Dmytro Ustynov

Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) and multi-agent systems (MAS) are increasingly embedded across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), yet their fairness implications for developer-facing tools remain underexplored despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Corey Yang-Smith , Ronnie de Souza Santos , Ahmad Abdellatif

Agentic AI denotes an architectural transition from stateless, prompt-driven generative models toward goal-directed systems capable of autonomous perception, planning, action, and adaptation through iterative control loops. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mamdouh Alenezi

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a leap in artificial intelligence, excelling in tasks using human language(s). Although the main focus of general-purpose LLMs is not code generation, they have shown promising results in the domain.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sanka Rasnayaka , Guanlin Wang , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer

Agentic systems increasingly rely on reusable procedural capabilities, \textit{a.k.a., agentic skills}, to execute long-horizon workflows reliably. These capabilities are callable modules that package procedural knowledge with explicit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yanna Jiang , Delong Li , Haiyu Deng , Baihe Ma , Xu Wang , Qin Wang , Guangsheng Yu

Although AI is transforming the world, there are serious concerns about its ability to behave and make decisions responsibly. Many ethical regulations, principles, and frameworks for responsible AI have been issued recently. However, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Xiwei Xu , Jon Whittle , Zhenchang Xing

Cybersecurity has become one of the earliest adopters of agentic AI, as security operations centers increasingly rely on multi-step reasoning, tool-driven analysis, and rapid decision-making under pressure. While individual large language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Vaishali Vinay

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agentic systems that plan, memorize, and act in open-world environments. This shift brings new security problems: failures are no longer only unsafe text generation, but can become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhihang Deng , Jiaping Gui , Weinan Zhang