2 papers
cs.SE2026
3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal Theory from Practitioner Discourse
Shyam Agarwal, Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner +1
Coding agents now author entire pull requests, and practitioners sharply disagree about what this does to code review: whether it becomes the bottleneck, whether human review is st…
cs.CR2025
Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware
Hao He, Haoqin Yang, Philipp Burckhardt +3
GitHub, the de facto platform for open-source software development, provides a set of social-media-like features to signal high-quality repositories. Among them, the star count is…