CommentsTechnical review and engineering monograph, 314 pages, 30 figures. Includes an evidence audit, a companion research artifact with 206 reliability records, and runnable protocols for evaluating and operating AI coding agents. August 2026. Source, companion, and reusable protocols: this https URL (https://github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents)
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Decoupling Code Complexity from Newcomer Participation: A Causal Study of AI Coding Agent Adoption in OSS
解耦代码复杂度与新参与者参与度:AI编码代理在开源软件中采纳的因果研究
Weiwei Xu, Xuanning Cui, Hengzhi Ye, Minghui Zhou
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School of Computer Science, Peking University(北京大学计算机学院)
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Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Ministry of Education, China(教育部高可信软件技术重点实验室)