We are recruiting collaborators for two active research projects. Explore their questions and relevant skills below.
THE WHOLE PICTURE · ACTIVE PROJECT
Professional software workers with coding agents
We are studying how, why, and when professionals outside traditional developer roles use coding agents at work, and how they collaborate with developers on their teams.
Skills: Interviews · Surveys · Qualitative analysis
Ask about this project ↗︎TRACES OF CREATION · ACTIVE PROJECT
Convergence or divergence in open source
We are investigating whether AI agents lead open-source projects toward similar library choices or encourage a more diverse ecosystem, using repository mining and static analysis.
Skills: Mining software repositories · Static analysis
Ask about this project ↗︎Other research under review
Managing AI agents: a workspace shadowing study
A workspace shadowing study of the interleaving nature of working with AI agents: how software creators switch between tasks and agents, and the challenges and opportunities of managing a swarm of AI agents.
The whole picture · Under review
Tracing calls to understand what developers test
Exploring how LLM-assisted call tracing can help us understand what developers test: connecting test code with the software behavior it exercises.
Traces of creation · Under review