Zihan Fang

From Conversation to Contribution: Characterizing Coding Agent in Open-Source Software

Zihan Fang, Yueke Zhang, Ningzhi Tang, Collin McMillan, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Yu Huang

AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor have evolved from code-suggestion tools into conversational collaborators, enabling vibe-coding workflows in which developers guide AI-generated code through natural-language dialogue. Although researchers have increasingly r…Read more