How Do Practitioners Build SE Agents? Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study
The rise of Software Engineering (SE) agents, i.e., LLM-based agents that can understand large codebases and carry out engineering tasks with limited human intervention, has been marked by rapid advances and adoption, but little is known about how developers build these systems in practice: existing studies mine repositories or examine deployment, but few investigate how SE agents are constructed. Through semi-structured interviews with 20 practitioners from 12 organizations and an online survey
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Published: 12 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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