The paper introduces GADR, a multi‑agent, self‑correcting workflow that extracts architectural decisions from raw meeting transcriptions and produces Nygard‑formatted ADR drafts. A feasibility study using five real project transcripts, expert reviews by four senior architects, and evaluations by fifteen students shows that GADR captures most expert‑identified decisions and yields drafts that participants find clear and useful, outperforming zero‑shot and few‑shot baselines in stability and structural adherence. The study also highlights a trade‑off: RAG‑based enrichment can deepen ADR content but may introduce transcript‑unfaithful material, raising open questions about traceability in automated architectural documentation.
arXiv:2606. 01385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software architecture design is a critical yet inherently complex and knowledge-intensive phase that requires balancing competing quality attributes and adapting to evolving requirements.
The study investigates whether large language models can extract Architectural Design Decisions (ADDs) from source code commits. Using four LLMs (Gemini 3 Pro, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2, Qwen3) with zero‑shot and few‑shot prompting on 30 developer‑written ADDs, the authors evaluate outputs with ROUGE‑L, BLEU, METEOR, and BERTScore. Results show all models achieve a BERT‑F1 above 0.81, with few‑shot prompting slightly improving alignment, but the generated ADDs tend to be overly long, implementation‑focused, and lack the rationale behind the decisions.
arXiv:2606. 14948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have substantially improved software engineering yet real-world development requires architectural understanding.
arXiv:2606. 29520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as assistants across the software development lifecycle, yet their ability to reason about software architecture remains largely unmeasured.
arXiv:2606. 24834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based dialogue assistants have become mainstream tools for software developers, yet current evaluation benchmarks focus exclusively on functional correctness.
arXiv:2604.17883v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vibe coding turns natural-language intent into working software, but code generation alone does not give humans and agents a shared account o...
arXiv:2607. 14896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Addressing a structural-engineering request requires more than a single answer; it requires a chain of interdependent artifacts: interpreted requirements, a computable model, validation records, solver outputs, code-check records, and a final report.
Agent4RE is a self‑refining multi‑agent framework designed for end‑to‑end software requirements engineering (RE). It coordinates specialized agents and includes two iterative improvement loops, and introduces a new real‑world dataset, RE‑E2E, for evaluating RE workflows from elicitation to generation. The framework, along with two enhanced variants that use autonomous self‑refinement or structured human feedback, consistently outperforms baseline prompting methods across eight large language models, achieving higher text‑based metrics and superior human and LLM‑as‑a‑judge ratings.
Agent Seer is a pipeline that automatically synthesizes realistic evaluation scenarios for AI agents that use external tools, using only the tool’s specification (function names, natural‑language descriptions, and typed parameter schemas). Starting from a single Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification, it enriches raw schemas, generates graded scenarios with synthetic tool outputs, and expands them into mock‑data‑grounded multi‑turn dialogues that demonstrate strong tool‑calling correctness and conversational coherence. Across seven diverse MCP specifications, the pipeline achieves high quality, with parameter‑schema complexity emerging as the main driver of quality variation and argument‑value accuracy identified as the dominant failure mode.
arXiv:2609.39333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous AI agents can turn authors' goals into interactive narratives by independently organizing and carrying out generation and revision. As age...
Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is a practice where developers and AI coding agents write specifications to guide software implementation, aiming to preserve the intent behind natural‑language instructions. This study analyzes SDD through Reddit discussions, interviews with 21 practitioners (including eight tool makers), and a large corpus of 470,795 spec files from 73,030 GitHub repositories. Findings reveal that while specs often include implementation details that aid agents, they also risk decay; tool-specific structures influence perception, and benefits vary between individuals and teams, with SDD mainly used for new features and involving higher planning and review costs.
MOONWALK is a pre‑production review system for animation and VFX that aligns creative intent, evidence, and action across junior‑supervisor workflows. It records shared intent, anchors judgments to evidence, and translates decisions into clear revision tasks tied to reference notes, with AI handling administrative coordination. A studio study shows that MOONWALK improves intent alignment, decision traceability, and checklist executability compared to a chat‑only interface, while keeping aesthetic authority with practitioners.