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From Conversation to Contribution: Characterizing Coding Agent in Open-Source Software
Zihan Fang, Yueke Zhang, Ningzhi Tang +3
AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor have evolved from code-suggestion tools into conversational collaborators, enabling vibe-coding workflows in which developers…
Focal Reward: Balanced Reinforcement Learning under Rubric-Based Rewards
Yu Huang, Zihua Zhao, Zhaoxin Huan +9
The open-ended generation in LLMs usually requires multi-dimensional rubrics to adequately assess quality and guide the improvement of reinforcement learning. However, a critical d…
How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions
Ningzhi Tang, Chaoran Chen, Gelei Xu +5
AI coding agents increasingly act directly within software environments, yet existing analyses of their failures rely on benchmark trajectories that miss how developers actually ex…
Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11,579 Real-World AI-Assisted IDE Sessions
Ningzhi Tang, Chaoran Chen, Zihan Fang +6
IDE-integrated AI coding assistants, which operate conversationally within developers' working codebases with access to project context and multi-file editing, are rapidly reshapin…
Semantic Neighborhood Density and Eye Gaze Time in Human Programmer Attention
Robert Wallace, Emory Michaels, Yu Huang +1
This paper studies the relationship between human eye gaze time on words in source code and the Semantic Neighborhood Density (SND) of those words. Human eye gaze time is a popular…