Jul 2026
What Do AI Agents Actually Change? An Empirical Taxonomy of Mutation Patterns in Performance-Improving Pull Requests
This work classifies 1,254 performance-relevant diff hunks from 216 agent PRs, spanning five agent systems, against the 18-category syntactic mutation taxonomy of Even-Mendoza et al. (2025) using a dual-LLM intersection pipeline.
Illia Dovhoshliubnyi, Nima Soroush, A. Sami et al.
· International Symposium on S... · 0 citations