AI Code Synthesis, Autonomous Debugging, and the Evolution of the Software Engineering Lifecycle: Repository Graph Reasoning, SWE-bench Benchmarks, and Security Bounds
Abstract—The software engineering (SWE) lifecycle has transitioned from human-centric manual programming toward autonomous AI code synthesis and closed-loop program repair. Foundation models pre-trained on billions of source code tokens—including modern frontier models and specialized coding LLMs—have evolved beyond is...