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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions

As of 22 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 23 of 23 outbound references and 4 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2605.29442.

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Source: pith, observed 2026-07-11T03:57:46.556650Z

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This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

Reference 1

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Observation 22571a1a-1054-434f-902a-c2c3ddeb9ec3 · outbound

This paper cites SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Reference 2

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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Observation 217f069a-6eb3-488f-96f6-435a2e92a1b3 · outbound

This paper cites Composer 2 technical report.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Composer 2 technical report

Reference 5

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Observation 495ca22e-d06a-481a-a8d6-afdaf93661cf · outbound

This paper cites Where do ai coding agents fail? an empirical study of failed agentic pull requests in github.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Where do ai coding agents fail? an empirical study of failed agentic pull requests in github

Reference 6

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This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

Reference 7

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Observation 17757d4f-6ac2-41f0-aeda-e38c2f2faa5d · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Reference 8

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

Reference 9

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Observation bffce2a3-dc93-4f61-b2a7-ad0c25a1d035 · outbound

This paper cites Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training

Reference 10

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Observation 04bbd29a-0c47-4ce1-be1b-e328507db873 · outbound

This paper cites The Rise of AI Teammates in Software Engineering (SE) 3.0: How Autonomous Coding Agents Are Reshaping Software Engineering.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions The Rise of AI Teammates in Software Engineering (SE) 3.0: How Autonomous Coding Agents Are Reshaping Software Engineering

Reference 11

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Observation 0b19d0b5-34f8-43af-844d-b34afff4ce45 · outbound

This paper cites Understanding code agent behaviour: An empirical study of success and failure trajectories.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Understanding code agent behaviour: An empirical study of success and failure trajectories

Reference 12

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Observation e1bc335d-1902-45b8-9b94-ee7c66563b82 · outbound

This paper cites Beyond Resolution Rates: Behavioral Drivers of Coding Agent Success and Failure.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Beyond Resolution Rates: Behavioral Drivers of Coding Agent Success and Failure

Reference 13

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Towards bidi- rectional human-ai alignment: A systematic review for clarifications, framework, and future directions.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Towards bidi- rectional human-ai alignment: A systematic review for clarifications, framework, and future directions

Reference 16

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Program- ming by chat: A large-scale behavioral analysis of 11,579 real-world ai-assisted ide sessions.

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Program- ming by chat: A large-scale behavioral analysis of 11,579 real-world ai-assisted ide sessions

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions Unresolved cited work

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How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions write newline

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Pith citing papers

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From Conversation to Contribution: Characterizing Coding Agent in Open-Source Software cites this paper.

From Conversation to Contribution: Characterizing Coding Agent in Open-Source Software How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions

Reference 29

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Observation b8a6cdd2-1c83-4b38-9129-b04eef8d0424 · inbound

Failure as a Process: An Anatomy of CLI Coding Agent Trajectories cites this paper.

Failure as a Process: An Anatomy of CLI Coding Agent Trajectories How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions

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How Do Practitioners Build SE Agents? Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study cites this paper.

How Do Practitioners Build SE Agents? Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions

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How Do Practitioners Build SE Agents? Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study cites this paper.

How Do Practitioners Build SE Agents? Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions

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