AI-Assisted Software Development

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AI-assisted software development studies how language models and coding agents can support work from requirements and design through implementation, testing, review, and maintenance. Common approaches include IDE code completion and chat, repository-aware retrieval, multi-step agents, and specification-driven workflows that use plans, tests, and architectural constraints to guide changes. Evaluation spans coding benchmarks and repository-level issue fixing, as well as real IDE traces, pull requests, static analysis, security checks, and fuzz testing. A central tension is that AI can speed up routine work while creating new costs in verification, security, maintainability, and developer understanding, so reliable use depends on effective feedback and human oversight.

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  1. Generation and Verification: Human-Agent Collaboration for Safety-Critical Automotive Software Engineering

    Oct 26, 2026Elizaveta Zinovyeva, Aiham Taleb, Nikita Kozodoi +5AI-Assisted Software DevelopmentCoding Agents

    Amazon Web Services, Germany · AUMOVIO, Regensburg, Germany

  2. Developer Task Delegation to LLMs and the Trust Factor: A Mixed Methods Study

    Oct 25, 2026Samuel Ferino, Rashina Hoda, John Grundy +2AI-Assisted Software DevelopmentHuman-AI Collaboration

    Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore.

  3. Operationalizing Governed Agentic Workflows in Regulated Finance: A Customer Zero Case Study using Zafin AIOS

    Oct 23, 2026Shahir Daya, Rob Dunlap, Alexandre Boulenger +2Agentic WorkflowsAI-Assisted Software Development

    Chief Technology Officer, Zafin, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Chief Product Officer, Zafin, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Head of AIOS Product Innovation, Zafin, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). +1

  4. AI-Based End-to-End Automotive Design and Software Development for SDVs

    Oct 21, 2026Nenad Petrovic, Alois KnollModel-Driven EngineeringAI-Assisted Software Development

    Technical University of Munich, Munich

  5. Does AI-Assisted Development Homogenize Software? An Empirical Study of Code Similarity, Quality, and Evolution

    Oct 16, 2026Luciano Marchezan, Romain Lefeuvre, Kevin Delcourt +2AI-Assisted Software DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

    Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada · University of York, York, UK · Université de Rennes, Rennes, France

  6. Why Software Engineering Is Indispensable in the Age of Coding Agents

    Oct 7, 2026Alfonso FuggettaSoftware EngineeringAI-Assisted Software Development

    Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Milan, Italy

  7. Towards an AI Software Factory for Data Systems

    Sep 28, 2026Anna Pavlenko, Bogdan Crivat, Brandon Haynes +23Automated Software EngineeringAI-Assisted Software Development

    Microsoft · University of Wisconsin-Madison · GitHub

  8. Developing a Roadmap to an AI-first Organization: A Case Study in Embedded Software Development

    Sep 25, 2026Viktor Kjellberg, Srijita Basu, Simin Sun +2Organizational AI AdoptionSoftware Engineering

    University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology

  9. Between the Commits: Process, Error, and Claim Reliability in a Wholly AI-Authored Codebase

    Sep 24, 2026Douglas LeithAI Agent ReliabilityData Provenance

    Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

  10. What Will Remain Human in Software Architecture? A Focus Group Report

    Sep 24, 2026Uwe van Heesch, Olaf Zimmermann, Christian KohlsHuman Oversight of AIHuman-AI Collaboration

    TH Köln, Germany · University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

  11. A Lean and Spec-Driven AI-Assisted Software Development Lifecycle for Applied AI Education: The AI-SDLC Approach

    Sep 21, 2026Andreas Martin, Sandro SchwanderAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

    FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, School of Business, Riggenbachstrasse 16, 4600 Olten, Switzerland

  12. A Study of the Reliability of Agentic AI-Generated Programs

    Sep 16, 2026Ayesha Shafique, Barton P. MIller, Elisa R. HeymannAI Agent ReliabilityAgentic Code Generation

  13. AI Policies: Help or Hindrance? A Software Developer's Perspective

    Sep 15, 2026Samuel Ferino, Rashina Hoda, John Grundy +2AI GovernanceHuman-Centered AI

    Monash University · Singapore Management University

  14. The Vibe Shift in Software Engineering: Evaluating AI-Led Conversational Programming for Performance, Cognition, and Responsible Adoption

    Sep 9, 2026Sales G. Aribe, Louie Jay S. LabastidaCode Generation EvaluationHuman-AI Collaboration

    Information Technology Department, Bukidnon State University, Malaybalay City, Philippines

  15. It Is Not My Code Anymore

    Sep 8, 2026Augusto CamargoAlgorithmic AccountabilityCode Generation Evaluation

    Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (IME) University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  16. Qlippy: A Retrieval-Augmented GenAI Assistant for Reproducible Quantum Workflows and Experiment Tracking

    Sep 4, 2026Mahee Gamage, Vlad StirbuAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentML Reproducibility

    University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland

  17. Building a research-software catalog with a coding agent: from hackathon prototype to public deployment

    Sep 4, 2026Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Satoshi Terasaki, Gotai YamadaSoftware EngineeringAI-Assisted Software Development

    Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

  18. The Psychological Costs of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Software Engineering

    Sep 3, 2026Adam Alami, Elda Paja, Abhishek TiwariSoftware EngineeringHuman-AI Collaboration

    University of Southern Denmark, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, 6400, Sønderborg, Denmark · IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark · University of Southern Denmark, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Odense, Denmark

  19. On the Prospects of Dynamic LLM Conversations in Software Development

    Aug 31, 2026Annemarie Wittig, Alina Mailach, Janet Siegmund +1LLM PromptingHuman-AI Interaction

    Leipzig, Leipzig University, Leipzig, 04109, Germany · Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, 09107, Germany · ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig, Leipzig University, Leipzig, 04109, Germany

  20. VibeJam: A User Study Platform for Web Development with Agents

    Aug 30, 2026Nishant Balepur, Connor Baumler, Valerie Chen +3AI Coding AgentsHuman-AI Collaboration

    University of Maryland · New York University · Carnegie Mellon University +1

  21. A Few Pages of Markdown: Committed AI Configuration and Lower Quality Cost after Coding-Agent Adoption

    Aug 26, 2026Yegor Denisov-Blanch, Shyam Agarwal, Pavel Azaletskiy +5Software EngineeringAI Coding Agents

    Stanford University Stanford, USA · Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA · Grid Dynamics Cleveland, USA

  22. Spec-Driven Development as Prescribed and as Practiced

    Aug 25, 2026Shyam Agarwal, Anmol Singhal, Andrew Macvean +2Software EngineeringSoftware Engineering Agents

    Carnegie Mellon University

  23. Engineering Signals of Human-AI Collaboration in the Agentic Coding Era: A Longitudinal Analysis of 33,228 Pull Requests from vLLM and SGLang with Implications for Biomedical AI Agents and Bioinformatics Pipeline Developmen

    Aug 14, 2026Jiada Li, Xuesong Ye, Olamide OlowoniyiOpen-Source Software DevelopmentHuman-AI Collaboration

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332 · Independent Researcher, Albany, NY, 12210

  24. Building AI-Intensive Software with AI: Early Results and a Cautionary Tale on Measuring Development Cost

    Aug 13, 2026Victor Barros de Miranda Neves, Kiev Santos da Gama, Vinicius Cardoso GarciaAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentAI and Labor

    Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil

  25. Comprendia: AI-Augmented Code Comprehension

    Aug 10, 2026Costain Nachuma, Minhaz F. ZibranStatic Code AnalysisAI-Assisted Software Development

    Department of Computer Science Idaho State University Pocatello, Idaho, USA

  26. WatchPoint: Executable User Feedback for Real-World Agentic Web Development

    Aug 10, 2026Guanqun Yang, Wei Yang, Xueqing LiuAI-Assisted Software DevelopmentAgentic Code Generation

    Stevens Institute of Technology · University of Texas at Dallas

  27. Towards Assurance Closure in AI-Native Large-Scale Agile Software Development

    Aug 7, 2026Ricardo BrittoAI AssuranceSoftware Engineering Agents

    Ericsson, Sweden · Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

  28. Characterizing the Quality Profile of AI-Generated C++ in Production

    Aug 6, 2026Michael Tran, Fred Lewis, Kun Yang +5Code GenerationCode Generation Evaluation

    Google, Mountain View, USA

  29. From Code Review to Code Critique: Intent, Drift, and Spotlight for AI-Generated Diffs at Scale

    Jul 31, 2026Chandra Maddila, Mashrur Rashik, Euna Mehnaz Khan +4Automated Code ReviewAI-Assisted Software Development

    Meta, USA · †Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

  30. Fewer Clarifications, Better Code: Benchmarking Cross-Session Personalized Ambiguity Adaptation in Coding Assistants

    Jul 29, 2026Zijian Xu, Wenshuo Zhang, Zisen Qin +4Knowledge Augmentation for Language ModelsCode Generation

    Southeast University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology