Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025
2025/12/16 by Ruanqianqian Huang, Avery Reyna, A. Moreno Reyna +8 · 16 voices · 4 citations
Computer Science · #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices #AI in Service Interactions #Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.14012
Abstract
The rise of AI agents is transforming how software can be built. The promise of agents is that developers might write code quicker, delegate multiple tasks to different agents, and even write a full piece of software purely out of natural language. In reality, what roles agents play in professional software development remains in question. This paper investigates how experienced developers use agents in building software, including their motivations, strategies, task suitability, and sentiments. Through field observations (N=13) and qualitative surveys (N=99), we find that while experienced developers value agents as a productivity boost, they retain their agency in software design and implementation out of insistence on fundamental software quality attributes, employing strategies for controlling agent behavior leveraging their expertise. In addition, experienced developers feel overall positive about incorporating agents into software development given their confidence in complementing the agents' limitations. Our results shed light on the value of software development best practices in effective use of agents, suggest the kinds of tasks for which agents may be suitable, and point towards future opportunities for better agentic interfaces and agentic use guidelines.
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- Professional software developers don't vibe, they control [hn, 217 points, 247 comments]
- coding agentとしての #llm の使用方法における統計的観察。おもしろいな.. / arxiv.org/pdf/2512.14012 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- This recent research from UC San Diego is a useful reality check on “vibe coding.” Professional devs aren’t handing off control to agents. They plan, supervise, and constrain them. Curious what happen [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
- Professional software developers don't vibe, they control https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437391) [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Great paper just published, analyzing field observations and surveys from August to October to understand how professional developers use AI. «Professional developers do not vibe code. Instead, they c [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
- Huang, R., Reyna, A., Lerner, S., Xia, H., & Hempel, B. (2025). Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025. *arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.14012*. arxiv.org [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Prof. Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Coding Use in 2025 #HackerNews https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Professional software developers don't vibe, they control https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437391 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- [arXiv] Professional Software Developers Don’t Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025 Summary A study by University of California San Diego and Cornell University examines how experienced [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Despite the need for constant supervision, developers report high levels of enjoyment and significant productivity boosts, viewing agents as essential collaborative partners rather than autonomous rep [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Professional software developers don't vibe, they control https:// arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 # arxiv [mastodon, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Prof. Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Coding Use in 2025 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437391) [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Professional Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Use for Coding in 2025 arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- Prof. Software Developers Don't Vibe, They Control: AI Agent Coding Use in 2025 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437391) [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- https://bsky.app/profile/buzzing.cc.web.brid.gy/post/3mbatjsivlwb2 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012 この論文は、2025年におけるプロのソフトウェア開発者のコーディングにおけるAIエージェントの利用について考察。 AIエージェントがどのように開発者の作業を制御し、効率化するかを分析。 具体的な利用方法や将来の展望について議論していると考えられます。 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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