From Code-Centric to Intent-Centric Software Engineering: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Generative AI, Agentic Systems, and Engineering Accountability

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and agentic systems are moving software engineering from code-centric production toward intent-centric human-agent work in which natural language, repository context, tools, tes...

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From Code-Centric to Intent-Centric Software Engineering: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Generative AI, Agentic Systems, and Engineering Accountability

From Code-Centric to Intent-Centric Software Engineering: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Generative AI, Agentic Systems, and Engineering Accountability

Original article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11027v1

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and agentic systems are moving software engineering from code-centric production toward intent-centric human-agent work in which natural language, repository context, tools, tes...

From Code-Centric to Intent-Centric Software Engineering: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Generative AI, Agentic Systems, and Engineering Accountability

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