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Who Writes the Docs in SE 3.0?

Year: 2026

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: As software engineering moves toward SE 3.0, AI agents are increasingly used to carry out development tasks and contribute changes to software projects. It is therefore important to understand the extent of these contributions and how human developers review and intervene, since these factors shape the risks of delegating work to AI agents. While recent studies have examined how AI agents support software development tasks (e.g., code generation, issue resolution, and PR automation), their role in documentation tasks remains underexplored–even though documentation is widely consumed and shapes how developers understand and use software.

Source: International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

DOI: 10.1145/3793302.3793612

Authors: Kazuma Yamasaki, Joseph Ayobami Joshua, Tasha Settewong, Mahmoud Alfadel, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto

Institutions: Nara Institute of Science and Technology, University of Calgary

Topic: Software Engineering Research

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Award: Establishment of an analytics platform for documentation of backward incompatibilities in libraries

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