arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-06
Three-Phase Evaluation of AI-Assisted Software Development Life Cycle
Joshua Strubel, Professor Carrie Russell, Carson Crockett, Jason Ferraro, Nathan Londhe, Uzayr Syed, et al.
This paper presents an exploratory evaluation of how increasing levels of AI autonomy affect software development productivity, requirement adherence, and developer cognitive workload. A team of four developers reimplemented the same full-stack web application across three sequen…