The paper titled "Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025" examines how experienced developers employ AI agents in software development. Through field observations and surveys, it finds that developers value agents for productivity but maintain control over design and implementation to ensure quality. They use agents as collaborative tools rather than full delegation, selecting tasks based on suitability and leveraging their expertise to guide agent behavior.
By Ruanqianqian Huang, Avery Reyna, Sorin Lerner, Haijun Xia, Brian Hempel
arXiv:2607. 05775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly evaluated on their ability to use tools, plan multi-step tasks, coordinate with other agents, and operate over extended horizons.
By Wael Albayaydh, Rui Zhao, Ivan Flechais
arXiv:2609.33772v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Executable environments are critical for post-training agents on tasks that require tool use and multi-step interaction, but constructing executabl...
By Weiyi Xu, Xiaowen Yang, Wen Da, Hang Xu, Canwei Li, Hongjie You, Pusen Dong, Yucheng Zeng, Zhaokai Luo, Mu Chuan
arXiv:2608. 12358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Product and engineering teams building role-bearing AI agents face an evaluation gap: an agent can produce accurate, safe, and fluent content while still failing the behavioral requirements of its assigned role.
By Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly evaluated on their ability to use tools, plan multi-step tasks, coordinate with other agents, and operate over extended horizons. Reported benchmark gains often obscure recurring failure modes documented across otherwise unrelated evaluation efforts.
arXiv:2606. 03461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stronger code agents are commonly assumed to be superior teachers for post-training, yet this assumption remains poorly disentangled from task difficulty, harness design, and student capacity.
By Sidi Yang, Chaofan Tao, Jierun Chen, Tiezheng Yu, Ruoyu Wang, Yuxin Jiang, Yiming Du, Wendong Xu, Jing Xiong, Taiqiang Wu, Lifeng Shang, Xiaohui Li, Ngai Wong, Haoli Bai
arXiv:2608.29596v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Autonomous large language model (LLM) agents increasingly face reliability, context consumption, and execution stability bottlenecks when deployed on c...
By Sanket Badhe, Deep Shah, Priyanka Tiwari, Nehal Kathrotia
arXiv:2606. 30573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce SWE-Interact, a new testbed for evaluating coding agents on multi-turn, interactive, user-driven software engineering tasks.
By Mohit Raghavendra, Anisha Gunjal, Aakash Sabharwal, Yunzhong He
arXiv:2608. 12355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in AI coding agent research has led to rapid improvements in agents' ability to autonomously perform complex software engineering tasks, from editing large codebases to executing long-horizon development workflows.
By Zora Z. Wang, John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Alexa Tartaglini, Valerie Chen, Yuxiang Wei, Zijian Wang, Lingming Zhang, Karthik Narasimhan, Ludwig Schmidt, Graham Neubig, Daniel Fried, Diyi Yang
arXiv:2607. 25032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills are an emerging way to extend large language model agents with reusable procedural knowledge that the agent loads on demand.
By Giuseppe Destefanis
arXiv:2605.08693v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Skills provide an effective mechanism for improving LLM agents on complex tasks, yet in existing agent frameworks, their creation, refinement, and...
By Min Yang, Jinghua Piao, Xu Xia, Xiaochong Lan, Jiaju Chen, Yongshun Gong, Yong Li
arXiv:2510. 04452v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Computer use agents (or "agents") are generative AI that automates actions within user interfaces from user commands.
By Jenny T. Liang, Titus Barik, Jeffrey Nichols, Eldon Schoop, Ruijia Cheng