arXiv:2603. 20667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing prompt-optimization techniques rely on local signals, causing poor generalization across tasks.
By Balaji Dinesh Gangireddi, Aniketh Garikaparthi, Manasi Patwardhan, Arman Cohan
arXiv:2608. 04148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI is increasingly used to coordinate planning, implementation, review, and testing in software development, yet it often offers limited transparency into its decisions and interactions.
By Zihan Fang, Yueke Zhang, Yu Huang
The paper titled "Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025" examines how experienced developers employ AI agents in software development. Through field observations and surveys, it finds that developers value agents for productivity but maintain control over design and implementation to ensure quality. They use agents as collaborative tools rather than full delegation, selecting tasks based on suitability and leveraging their expertise to guide agent behavior.
By Ruanqianqian Huang, Avery Reyna, Sorin Lerner, Haijun Xia, Brian Hempel
The paper reports a case study on using AI agents to assist engineers in programming industrial robots. The agent did not increase productivity overall, except for generating highly repetitive code, but its effectiveness improved as engineers learned to use it and the agent was adapted to the domain. The study highlights that AI agents are not plug‑and‑play; successful adoption requires training, a learning curve, and domain‑specific configuration.
By Salim Fares, Steffen Herbold
arXiv:2610.17410v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Advances in large-scale machine learning have enabled agentic AI systems: persistent, autonomous computational entities that pursue goals, initiate act...
By Ian Foster
CODESKILL is an LLM-based framework that learns to extract, evolve, and maintain procedural skills from coding-agent trajectories. It treats skill extraction and skill-bank management as a learnable policy trained with reinforcement learning, using a hybrid reward combining rubric-based skill quality and verifiable execution feedback. Experiments on EnvBench, SWE-Bench Verified, and Terminal-Bench 2 demonstrate that CODESKILL raises average pass rates by 11.03 over a no-skill baseline and by 5.10 over the strongest prompt-based or memory baseline while keeping a compact skill bank.
By Yanzhou Li, Yiran Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xiaoxia Liu, Yang Liu