arXiv:2604.20779v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: AI coding agents are being adopted at scale, yet we lack empirical evidence on how people actually use them and how much of their output is useful...
By Joachim Baumann, Vishakh Padmakumar, Xiang Li, John Yang, Diyi Yang, Sanmi Koyejo
arXiv:2606.21804v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Maintainability is a core dimension of software engineering, shaping how code is written, reviewed, and developed over time. While coding age...
By Shaswat Patel, Betty Li Hou, Arun Purohit, Kai Xu, Jane Pan, He He, Valerie Chen
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 "Runnable Commit Untangling for Coding Agents" introduces RucTangle, an agentic method that untangles large, tangled patches from coding agents while ensuring each commit keeps the code runnable. It also presents TangleEval, an evaluation framework that measures how untangled commit histories aid agents in repairing bugs. Experiments on 131 agent-generated patches show RucTangle produces fully runnable histories, outperforming baselines that leave 20.6%-37.4% of commits unrunnable, and improves bug‑repair success by 5.2% absolute in pass@1.
By Jinfeng Jiang, Dongsun Kim, Dayi Lin, Zhou Yang
arXiv:2607. 03691v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Coding agents, autonomous systems that use large language models (LLMs) to resolve software engineering tasks, rely on agent harness: a middleware layer in between a developer and a large language model that orchestrates system prompts, tool execution, context management, and iterative reasoning loops.
By Oussama Ben Sghaier, Hao Li, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
The paper introduces FlowAgent, an AI agent deployed at Google to automatically repair test failures in the pre-submit continuous integration workflow. FlowAgent uses a ReAct-style generate-and-validate loop with strict latency and quality filters, and was evaluated on 195 real-world failures with a 67.18% accuracy rate. After deployment, it suggested fixes on 295,508 changes, with developers previewing 65,069 and applying 28,554, and received positive feedback from interviews.
By Celal Ziftci, Spencer Greene, Ray Liu, Livio Dalloro, Lorenzo Dini
arXiv:2607. 09902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic coding tools are increasingly used to make autonomous repository-level changes to real-world projects.
By Chunqiu Steven Xia, Courtney Miller
arXiv:2607. 09510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) coding agents are increasingly deployed to autonomously perform software engineering tasks in terminal-based environments, making their reliability a growing concern.
By Xiangxin Zhao, Han Li, Shuaiting Li, Tianyi Zhao, Earl T. Barr, Federica Sarro, He Ye
arXiv:2607. 10856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rise of Software Engineering (SE) agents, i.
By Yunbo Lyu, David Williams, Jieke Shi, Zhensu Sun, Chao Peng, Zhou Yang, Federica Sarro, David Lo
Scaling coding agents requires a continuing supply of executable data for training, benchmarking, and continuous evaluation. Each task must couple a realistic software state with a specification, development tools, and reliable verification.
arXiv:2607. 28591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling coding agents requires a continuing supply of executable data for training, benchmarking, and continuous evaluation.
By Haomin Qi, Xingliang Wang, Xuanqi Gao, Baihui Sang, Xin Zhang, Minghua Ma, Pengfei Gao, Yu Kang, Qingwei Lin, Saravan Rajmohan, Dongmei Zhang, Qi Zhang
arXiv:2607. 03968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as IDE-integrated coding agents that decompose tasks, generate and edit files, run code, and refine outputs over many turns.
By Abhishek Kumar, Carsten Maple