5 papers
Industry Classification of GitHub Repositories Using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Kevin Xu, Alexander Quispe
GitHub hosts hundreds of millions of public repositories, but the platform exposes no native mapping from repositories to standardized industry sectors. This gap limits empirical w…
Agentic Delegation and the Language Frontier of Software Developers: A Model and Evidence from Claude Code on GitHub
Alexander Quispe, Kevin Xu
We develop and test a model of agentic delegation in software production. Developers face language-specific entry thresholds; conversational AI mainly augments work in languages th…
Uber's Failover Architecture: Reconciling Reliability and Efficiency in Hyperscale Microservice Infrastructure
Mayank Bansal, Milind Chabbi, Kenneth Bogh +20
Operating a global, real-time platform at Uber's scale requires infrastructure that is both resilient and cost-efficient. Historically, reliability was ensured through a costly 2x…
Measuring Software Innovation with Open Source Software Development Data
Eva Maxfield Brown, Cailean Osborne, Peter Cihon +4
Existing innovation metrics inadequately capture software innovation, creating blind spots for researchers and policymakers seeking to understand and foster technological innovatio…
Measuring AI agent autonomy: Towards a scalable approach with code inspection
Peter Cihon, Merlin Stein, Gagan Bansal +2
AI agents are AI systems that can achieve complex goals autonomously. Assessing the level of agent autonomy is crucial for understanding both their potential benefits and risks. Cu…