arXiv AI

Create Your Own Work Stack: Deploying Self-hosted AI and Tooling in a Tech Startup

The paper reports on Grayhat Developers’ experience deploying a hybrid AI stack that combines local open‑source models with commercial agents. After finding local models too slow for complex coding tasks, the team kept commercial agents for those tasks while using local models for lower‑complexity work, documentation sync, and tool coordination, reducing commercial AI usage by 27–36%. The initial self‑hosted deployment suffered from UX friction, but a centrally configured deployment improved adoption.

arXiv AI
Sep 18

Not All AI Agents Are Equal: Characterizing Resource and Performance Dynamics

The paper investigates how large‑language‑model (LLM) based AI agents mix latency, local resource usage, and container bottlenecks when processing user requests that involve remote LLM calls and local tool execution. By measuring three representative tasks—retrieval‑augmented question answering, web search, and software coding—the authors show that agents exhibit diverse resource dynamics, with concurrent requests revealing task‑specific bottlenecks in CPU, disk I/O, and memory. Leveraging these insights, they propose CPU‑aware tool admission and task‑aware CPU allocation, achieving up to a 5.4× speed‑up for CPU‑sensitive tasks and a 32% reduction in average latency across multiple tasks.

By Wonmi Choi, Minuk Park, Zhixiong Niu, Yongqiang Xiong, Chuck Yoo, Gyeongsik Yang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 19

TokenEconomizer: Experience-Driven Black-Box Cost Control for Coding Agents

arXiv:2610.22732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in frontier coding agents have sharply increased the token costs of AI-assisted software engineering. Their token efficiency is typically eval...

By Aaron J. Li, Weijia Xu, Chandan Singh, Zixiao Chen, Jeevana Priya Inala, Charlotte Siska, Acar Tamersoy, Bin Yu, Ion Stoica, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv AI
Sep 18

The Organization of Inference: Information, Resource Constraints, and AI Production

The paper investigates how the distribution of capacity and task information across stages of AI production affects the economic value of inference. Using controlled workflow experiments on software‑engineering tasks, it finds that direct execution achieves a 59.6% success rate at token ceilings of 12,000 and 24,000, while information‑constrained planning improves from 36.2% to 51.2%. The study also shows that giving planners access to task issues boosts success, and that scaling token limits changes the balance between planning and execution workloads.

By Yukun Zhang, Kemu Xu, Yishen Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Inference Economics of Enterprise Coding Agents: A Case Study of Cloud vs. On-Premise LLMs

arXiv:2607. 13080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous coding agents force engineering organizations to choose between API-based frontier models -- strong reasoning at high token cost -- and on-premise quantized open-weights models, which promise low-marginal-cost scaling and data sovereignty at some loss of reasoning fidelity.

By Sheng-Wei Peng, Yi-Hsun Lin, Yi-Pei Lee
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Beyond Code Generation: Reliability, Verification, and Cost Economics in the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle

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 AI
Oct 27

CTXAgent - Self-Controlled Context Management of LLM Agents

The paper introduces CTXAgent, a self‑controlled context management system for large language model agents that compacts conversation history when a token threshold is reached. It evaluates seven frontier models, comparing their ability to manage context with and without dedicated tools, and benchmarks performance across coding, scientific, and software engineering tasks. Results show that well‑managed models keep live context below 100k tokens, maintain high benchmark scores, and achieve significant cost reductions, with Claude Opus 5.5 outperforming its explicit configuration by 34% lower cost.

By Matthias Busch, Marius Tacke, Roland C. Aydin, Christian Feiler, Christian J. Cyron
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Building AI That Works: ESnet's Pragmatic Approach to AI-Driven Operational Excellence

arXiv:2607. 22948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ORBIT (Operations Responses and Business Intelligence Toolkit) project was initiated to assess agentic AI for the upcoming ESnet 7 initiative and to address persistent operational pain points in the Network Operations Center (NOC) workflow.

By Bin Dong, Sukhada Gholba, Brooklin Gore, Shawn Kwang, David Mitchell, Samuel Oehlert, Garrett Stewart, Brendan White, Luke Baker, Ed Balas, Britt Gathright, Chin Guok, Jon-Paul Heron, John MacAuley, Scott Richmond, Chris Robb, Chris Tracy, Kesheng Wu
arXiv AI
1d ago

openJiuwen: Beyond Static Harnesses for Long-Horizon Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.27969v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon coding agents operate over evolving repository states while increasingly relying on heterogeneous capabilities, delegated agents, and...

By Tao Yu, Xinyu Zhang, Qianqian Chen, Xiaoneng Xiang, Chia Kwangyang, Xingchen Huang, Ran Chen, Yangkai Ding, Zheng Wang, Yeo Boon Hong, Bingzheng Gan, Enrui Hu, Shuo Cheng, Deyang Li, Ruifeng Shi, Hongbo Wang, Qi Ye, Xuefeng Jin, Zhangchun Zhao