Ownership is a key aspect of large-scale software development. We examine the relationship between different ownership measures and software failures in two large software projects: Windows Vista and ...

Abstract: Technical debt and code smells are related concepts used to describe the trade-offs and consequences of suboptimal coding practices. Leaving code smells in the code means that developers ...

The creator of a popular AI coding agent said software engineering as a job title will soon be a thing of the past as artificial intelligence automates writing code. Boris Cherny, who created Claude ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...