Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"Human-only commits produced the lowest rate of newly introduced Semgrep security findings in the SWE-chat comparison."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Source authors Joachim Baumann, Vishakh Padmakumar, Xiang Li, John Yang, Diyi Yang, Sanmi Koyejo

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Collaborative coding sessions were the fastest and cheapest per hundred committed lines under SWE-chat’s captured-session metrics."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Source authors Joachim Baumann, Vishakh Padmakumar, Xiang Li, John Yang, Diyi Yang, Sanmi Koyejo

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"In SWE-chat, vibe-coded commits introduced Semgrep security findings at approximately 3.8 times the human-only rate and 3.2 times the collaborative rate per thousand added committed lines."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Source authors Joachim Baumann, Vishakh Padmakumar, Xiang Li, John Yang, Diyi Yang, Sanmi Koyejo

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Across the coding modes examined in SWE-chat, Claude Code agents proactively asked users for clarification in only 3.0 to 3.2 percent of turns."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Source authors Joachim Baumann, Vishakh Padmakumar, Xiang Li, John Yang, Diyi Yang, Sanmi Koyejo

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"The October 2026 SWE-chat study examined nearly 18,000 coding sessions collected from public software repositories."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Source authors Joachim Baumann, Vishakh Padmakumar, Xiang Li, John Yang, Diyi Yang, Sanmi Koyejo

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Lars Faye argues that increasing ambiguity through agentic coding does not automatically constitute a higher level of programming abstraction."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title Agentic Coding is a Trap

Source authors Lars Faye

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"As Edsger Dijkstra argued, formalism is not a burden, but a privilege."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title On the foolishness of "natural language programming".

Source authors Edsger W. Dijkstra

Source year 1978

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Formal symbolism allows programmers to exclude classes of nonsense that natural-language specifications can permit."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title On the foolishness of "natural language programming".

Source authors Edsger W. Dijkstra

Source year 1978

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Effective regulation requires sufficient variety in the regulator to handle the disturbances it must control."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title An Introduction to Cybernetics

Source authors W. Ross Ashby

Source year 1956

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Dex Horthy argues that autonomous software factories can create maintenance and comprehension problems when generated code accumulates without sufficient human oversight."

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Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER Engineering Reinvented

Source title Why Software Factories Fail

Source authors Dex Horthy

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid