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Loop Engineering: Building Blocks, Adoption, and Impact
Jai Lal Lulla, Vahram Nersesyan, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi +2
Over the past months, the way developers guide agentic AI coding tools has moved up several levels of abstraction, from phrasing prompts to engineering context to configuring the h…
An Exploratory Study of Agent Plans for Agentic AI Coding Tools in Open-Source Software
Muhammad Auwal Abubakar, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla +4
Repository-level configuration artifacts allow developers to provide guidance for agentic AI coding tools, such as Claude Code, Gemini, etc. Although prior research has examined re…
Motivations and Barriers to Communicating Software Engineering Research: Insights from Early Career Researchers
Shalini Chakraborty, Marvin Wyrich, Sven Apel +1
Science communication is increasingly becoming a part of modern research careers, involving researchers to disseminate knowledge, engage broader communities, and increase the socie…
From Registry to Repository: How AI Agent Skills Are Written, Adapted, and Maintained
Haoyu Gao, Jai Lal Lulla, Hong Yi Lin +3
AI coding agents increasingly rely on skills: structured context bundles, typically a SKILLmd file with a YAML header and Markdown body, loaded on demand for domain knowledge, w…
AI Slop and the Software Commons
Sebastian Baltes, Marc Cheong, Christoph Treude
In this article, we argue that AI slop in software is creating a tragedy of the commons. Individual productivity gains from AI-generated content externalize costs onto reviewer cap…
Political and Ideological Pressure in Software Engineering Research: The Case of DEI Backlash
Sonja M. Hyrynsalmi, Chris Brown, Alexander Serebrenik +2
Political and ideological pressures shape global research. Recently, these pressures have become particularly visible in research related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).…
Ethics of Care for Software Engineering
Alexander Serebrenik, Sebastian Baltes
Software engineering researchers repeatedly argue that the impact of their research on industrial practice, while desired and intended, is rarely achieved. We believe that a possib…
"An Endless Stream of AI Slop": How Developers Discuss the Burden of AI-Assisted Software Development
Sebastian Baltes, Marc Cheong, Christoph Treude
"AI slop", that is, low-quality AI-generated content, is increasingly affecting software development, from generated code and pull requests to documentation and bug reports. Howeve…
Harness Engineering for Agentic AI Coding Tools: An Exploratory Study
Matthias Galster, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Jai Lal Lulla +3
Agentic AI coding tools increasingly automate software development tasks. Developers can configure these tools through versioned repository-level artifacts such as Markdown and JSO…
On the Impact of AGENTS.md Files on the Efficiency of AI Coding Agents
Jai Lal Lulla, Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster +3
AI coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code are increasingly used to autonomously contribute to software repositories. However, little is known about how repository-level config…
Staying or Leaving? How Job Satisfaction, Embeddedness and Antecedents Predict Turnover Intentions of Software Professionals
Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +13
Context: Voluntary turnover is common in the software industry, increasing recruitment and onboarding costs and the risk of losing organizational and tacit knowledge. Objective: Th…
The Software Infrastructure Attitude Scale (SIAS): A Questionnaire Instrument for Measuring Professionals' Attitudes Toward Technical and Sociotechnical Infrastructure
Miikka Kuutila, Paul Ralph, Huilian Sophie Qiu +19
Context: Recent software engineering (SE) research has highlighted the need for sociotechnical research, implying a demand for customized psychometric scales. Objective: We define…
A Multifaceted View on Discrimination in Software Development Careers
Shalini Chakraborty, Sebastian Baltes
Conversations around diversity and inclusion in software engineering often focus on gender and racial disparities. However, the State of Devs 2025 survey with 8,717 participants re…
Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software
Seyedmoein Mohsenimofidi, Matthias Galster, Christoph Treude +1
GenAI-based coding assistants have disrupted software development. The next generation of these tools is agent-based, operating with more autonomy and potentially without human ove…
Lost in Transition: The Struggle of Women Returning to Software Engineering Research after Career Breaks
Shalini Chakraborty, Sebastian Baltes
The IT industry provides supportive pathways such as returnship programs, coding boot camps, and buddy systems for women re-entering their job after a career break. Academia, howev…
On the Need to Rethink Trust in AI Assistants for Software Development: A Critical Review
Sebastian Baltes, Timo Speith, Brenda Chiteri +3
Trust is a fundamental concept in human decision-making and collaboration that has long been studied in philosophy and psychology. However, software engineering (SE) articles often…