Between the Commits: Process, Error, and Claim Reliability in a Wholly AI-Authored Codebase

arXiv:2609.29744 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/doug-leith/extractor-code-development

Terminology

• Provenance — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abductive process — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Interactions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild
• Failure as a Process: An Anatomy of CLI Coding Agent Trajectories
• TrajAudit: Automated Failure Diagnosis for Agentic Coding Systems
• What Resolve Rate Hides: Trajectory Structure Diagnostics for Coding Agents
• A Large-Scale Comprehensive Measurement of AI-Generated Code in Real-World Repositories
• Debt Behind the AI Boom: A Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI-Generated Code in the Wild
• AtomicCommitBench: Can Coding Agents Reconstruct Commit Histories from Squashed Patches?

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