arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-01
Cheap Code, Costly Judgment: A Case Study on Governable Agentic Software Engineering
James C. Davis, Paschal C. Amusuo, Tanmay Singla, Berk Çakar, Kirsten A. Davis
Generative AI is shifting software engineering from a practice organized around scarce implementation effort toward one organized around abundant, low-cost code production. This shift changes the central engineering problem: not whether AI can generate useful code, but how engine…