The paper introduces LibraryDesignBench, a benchmark that tests how well agents can design reusable libraries from specifications without prescribed designs. It evaluates libraries by measuring the correctness and simplicity of programs written by three different user agents across 242 programming problems in four languages. Findings show that while agents often replicate human-designed abstractions, downstream agents still tend to reimplement library features due to rigidity or usability issues, and that providing more prescriptive guidance improves reuse and program simplicity.
By Gabriel Orlanski, Alex L. Zhang, Avi Trost, Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala, Aws Albarghouthi, Ludwig Schmidt
arXiv:2607. 13285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The capability of a modern AI agent depends not only on its foundation model but also on its harness, which constructs prompts, manages state, invokes tools, and coordinates execution.
By Ruhan Wang, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li, Zhongzhi Li, Yue Yu, Junyao Yang, Kishan Panaganti, Haitao Mi, Dongruo Zhou, Leoweiliang
arXiv:2607. 21217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The recent emergence of vibe-coding workflows is changing what coding agents are expected to do.
By Zhongyuan Peng, Dan Huang, Chuyu Zhang, Caijun Xu, Changyi Xiao, Shibo Hong, David Lo, Lin Qiu, Xuezhi Cao, Jiyuan He, Yixin Cao
arXiv:2606. 05608v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For over half a century, software engineering has operated on a foundational premise: human engineers decompose problems, encode decision logic into static code, and manually adapt that code as requirements evolve.
By Zhenfeng Cao
arXiv:2604. 14228v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that can run shell commands, edit files, and call external services on behalf of the user.
By Jiacheng Liu, Xiaohan Zhao, Xinyi Shang, Zhiqiang Shen
The paper introduces Spec-Driven Agentic Development (SDAD), a framework that leverages large language models to ingest extensive functional requirement documents and repository context in a single workflow, turning specification quality into the engine for autonomous software delivery. SDAD blends disciplined upfront formalisation with rapid implementation, encompassing intent capture, machine‑readable specifications, agentic synthesis, and multi‑agent verification with human sign‑off. It positions AI‑code as a fourth production paradigm, compares it to traditional Waterfall and Agile approaches, and extends the model to team role evolution, quantitative governance metrics, and a staged migration blueprint for practical adoption.
By Vu Hung Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen
Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks with large reference implementations. Many benchmarks...
arXiv:2607. 14037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic coding tools are increasingly capable of generating and submitting pull requests (PRs) to software projects, introducing new forms of human-agent collaboration in software development.
By Maliha Noushin Raida, Daqing Hou
arXiv:2607. 21832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models and their rapid adoption across software engineering tasks have made Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding agents an integral component of modern software development workflows.
By Iren Mazloomzadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Morovati, Foutse Khomh
The paper examines how AI coding agents are evolving beyond simple autocomplete to perform complex tasks such as repository inspection, multi-file editing, tool execution, test writing, pull request creation, and long-duration work with minimal supervision. It highlights that while these agents boost coding activity, significant bottlenecks remain in review, integration, testing, security, deployment, and production operations, and that the economics of software development are shifting toward variable token, tool, sandbox, CI, and rework costs. The authors synthesize recent research and industry data to propose four engineering concepts—Agentic SDLC Throughput Paradox, Production-Qualified Change, Verification Tax, and an Agentic SDLC Control Plane—to guide the allocation of autonomy within cost, reliability, and human-attention constraints, ultimately reframing the research focus to production-qualified value per dollar, reviewer-hour, and operational risk.
By Happy Bhati
arXiv:2609.37143v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Modern coding agents can deliver increasingly large repository-level changes, and recent benchmarks reflect this by emphasizing long-horizon tasks wi...
By Yun Peng, Zihan Wu, Zeyang Zhuang, Xin Zhou, Rui Shu, Xu Han, Chun Yong Chong, Yuan Wang, Jiakun Liu
arXiv:2607. 02703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we describe LLMoxie, an institutional AI platform whose three-tiered architecture supports multi-cloud and on-premise inference, a LiteLLM/MLflow control plane for authentication, budgeting, PII masking, and observability, and an application augmentation layer for AI coding agents.
By Landung Setiawan, Anant Mittal, Cordero Core, Anshul Tambay, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, David A. C. Beck, Andrew J. Connolly, Vani Mandava