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SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

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AI coding agents are being adopted at scale, yet we lack empirical evidence on how people actually use them and how much of their output is useful in practice. We present SWE-chat, the first large-scale dataset of real coding agent sessions collected from open-source developers in the wild. The dataset currently contains 6,000 sessions, comprising more than 63,000 user prompts and 355,000 agent tool calls. SWE-chat is a living dataset; our collection pipeline automatically and continually discovers and processes sessions from public repositories. Leveraging SWE-chat, we provide an initial empirical characterization of real-world coding agent usage and failure modes. We find that coding patterns are bimodal: in 41% of sessions, agents author virtually all committed code ("vibe coding"), while in 23%, humans write all code themselves. Despite rapidly improving capabilities, coding agents remain inefficient in natural settings. Just 44% of all agent-produced code survives into user commits, and agent-written code introduces more security vulnerabilities than code authored by humans. Furthermore, users push back against agent outputs -- through corrections, failure reports, and interruptions -- in 44% of all turns. By capturing complete interaction traces with human vs. agent code authorship attribution, SWE-chat provides an empirical foundation for moving beyond curated benchmarks towards an evidence-based understanding of how AI agents perform in real developer workflows.

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ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?

cs.SE · 2026-05-05 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

ProgramBench introduces 200 tasks where models must reconstruct full programs like FFmpeg or SQLite from docs alone; none of 9 evaluated LMs fully solve any task and the best passes 95% tests on only 3% of tasks while favoring monolithic code.

LLM Anonymization Against Agentic Re-Identification

cs.CR · 2026-05-29 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

AURA is an LLM mask-reconstruct anonymization method that improves resistance to agentic web-search re-identification on interview transcripts while retaining contextual utility.

SWE Atlas: Benchmarking Coding Agents Beyond Issue Resolution

cs.LG · 2026-05-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

SWE Atlas is a benchmark suite for coding agents that evaluates Codebase Q&A, Test Writing, and Refactoring using comprehensive protocols assessing both functional correctness and software engineering quality.

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