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Beyond Code Generation: Reliability, Verification, and Cost Economics in the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 4, 2026 · UTC

AI coding systems are moving from autocomplete and chat toward agents that can inspect repositories, edit multiple files, run tools, write tests, open pull requests, and work for long periods with limited supervision. This capability changes the bottleneck in software delivery. Recent field studies show meaningful gains in coding activity, but newer evidence also shows that those gains attenuate sharply between writing code and shipping reliable software. Review, integration, testing, security, deployment, and production operations remain constraining stages, while the economics are shifting f

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