4 papers
AI Writes Faster Than Humans Can Review: A Longitudinal Study of an Enterprise 2x Mandate
Hao He, Shyam Agarwal, Yegor Denisov-Blanch +3
Enterprises increasingly mandate AI coding tools and report large productivity gains, yet longitudinal evidence on how such a mandate unfolds is scarce. In this paper, we present a…
AI IDEs or Autonomous Agents? Measuring the Impact of Coding Agents on Software Development
Shyam Agarwal, Hao He, Bogdan Vasilescu
Large language model (LLM) based coding agents increasingly act as autonomous contributors that generate and merge pull requests, yet their real-world effects on software projects…
Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects
Hao He, Courtney Miller, Shyam Agarwal +2
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in softwa…
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…