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The world is being quietly rearranged by people who write very long documents.

arXiv · April 2, 2026
The title they went with Investigating Autonomous Agent Contributions in the Wild: Activity Patterns and Code Change over Time Noisy translates that to

AI agents write more code. That code needs more fixing.

What happened
AI programs are now writing a lot of the code in open-source projects. But it turns out, this AI-written code needs more fixing and rewriting later than code written by humans.
Why it matters
Software development teams are now getting more code written by AI programs. This means projects might move faster at first, but they will also require more ongoing maintenance and fixes. The promise of AI making coding faster might just shift the work from writing new code to fixing old code.
The signal
Watch for open-source projects to start setting rules about how much AI-generated code they will accept, or for new tools designed specifically to fix AI-generated code.
If you insist
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