arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-10
Do These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends? Measuring the Post-Merge Fate of Agentic Code
Chunqiu Steven Xia, Courtney Miller
Agentic coding tools are increasingly used to make autonomous repository-level changes to real-world projects. Prior work has largely evaluated these contributions at the pre-merge stage, through outcomes such as pull request acceptance and review effort. Far less is known about…