arXiv AI

Mining Architectural Quality Under Agentic AI Adoption: A Causal Study of Java Repositories

arXiv:2606. 13298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding tools are now used by a majority of developers, and agentic use of these tools has popularized the practice colloquially called "vibe coding".

arXiv AI
Jul 22

Don't Blame the Large Language Model: How Agent Harness Evolution Shapes Coding Agent Quality

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

Detecting AI Coding Agents in Open Source: A Validated Multi-Method Census of 180 Million Repositories

Generative AI coding agents are entering the open-source supply chain, yet their diverse and often invisible traces leave their prevalence poorly understood. We introduce a multi-layered detection framework that integrates configuration-file scanning, commit-message analysis, author-identity matching, and bot-signature lookup across World of Code (180M+ Git repositories), classifying agent traces into four behavioral types.

arXiv AI
Aug 17

Engineering Signals of Human-AI Collaboration in the Agentic Coding Era: A Longitudinal Analysis of 33,228 Pull Requests from vLLM and SGLang with Implications for Biomedical AI Agents and Bioinformatics Pipeline Developmen

arXiv:2608. 13884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of AI coding assistants and autonomous agentic development systems has coincided with major changes in the pace and structure of open-source software engineering.

By Jiada Li, Xuesong Ye, Olamide Olowoniyi
arXiv AI
Jul 10

3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal Theory from Practitioner Discourse

arXiv:2607. 07980v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents now author entire pull requests, and practitioners sharply disagree about what this does to code review: whether it becomes the bottleneck, whether human review is still necessary, and whether it quietly erodes the understanding that it once built.

By Shyam Agarwal, Courtney Miller, Christian K\"astner, Bogdan Vasilescu
arXiv AI
Sep 25

SWE-Prometheus: Measuring Engineering Governance Improvements in Real-World Repositories

SWE-Prometheus is a new benchmark that evaluates large language model coding agents on the broader task of improving repository engineering governance, rather than just fixing individual issues. It presents fixed snapshots with open-ended objectives, requiring agents to identify risks, prioritize interventions, and verify changes across six governance dimensions. The benchmark includes 60 repositories and reports metrics such as Normalized Governance Improvement and behavior‑breakage rates, providing a nuanced view of how different models affect governance artifacts and execution‑backed improvements.

By Jiajun Wu, Leixin Sun, Zihan Tan, Yitao Liu, Shuo Li, Jiaru Qian, Shanghaoran Quan, Chuangxin Zhao, Yangxu Liao, Yang Liu, Bin Chong, Guancheng Wan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 15

Early Adoption of Agentic Coding Tools by GitHub Projects

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. While prior studies have examined PR-level outcomes of agent-generated contributions, less is known about how agentic coding tools are adopted and managed at the project level.