3 papers
cs.SE2026
Code Change Characteristics and Description Alignment: A Comparative Study of Agentic versus Human Pull Requests
Dung Pham, Taher A. Ghaleb
AI coding agents can autonomously generate pull requests (PRs), yet little is known about how their contributions compare to those of humans. We analyze 33,596 agent-generated PRs…
cs.SE2026
When AI Agents Touch CI/CD Configurations: Frequency and Success
Taher A. Ghaleb
AI agents are increasingly used in software development, yet their interaction with CI/CD configurations is not well studied. We analyze 8,031 agentic pull requests (PRs) from 1,60…
cs.SE2026
Fingerprinting AI Coding Agents on GitHub
Taher A. Ghaleb
AI coding agents are reshaping software development through both autonomous and human-mediated pull requests (PRs). When developers use AI agents to generate code under their own a…