arXiv AI

Cheap Code, Costly Judgment: A Case Study on Governable Agentic Software Engineering

arXiv:2607. 01087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI is shifting software engineering from a practice organized around scarce implementation effort toward one organized around abundant, low-cost code production.

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
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
arXiv AI
Jul 7

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

arXiv:2607. 03691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents, autonomous systems that use large language models (LLMs) to resolve software engineering tasks, rely on agentic scaffolding: 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
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Parthenon Law: A Self-Evolving Legal-Agent Framework

arXiv:2606. 04602v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agents grow more capable, legal-domain LLM agents promise to turn document-heavy matters into reviewable work products -- yet reliable deployment faces three obstacles: no large-scale evidence on how today's strongest model-and-harness combinations behave on end-to-end legal matters; no agent architecture adapted to the legal vertical, only general-purpose harnesses; and, in a setting that keeps shifting with new facts, authorities, and deadlines, no mechanism for systems to learn from their own outcomes.

By Hejia Geng, Leo Liu