Deliberate Pacing for Human Oversight in Agentic Software Development
- Published
- Source
- arXiv
- Paper number
- 1446
- Field
- Software Engineering
- arXiv ID
- 2611.09550
Key points
- The authors distinguished speed from pace, defining deliberate pacing as intentionally adjusting when and how autonomous development proceeds to preserve opportunities for meaningful oversight.
- The review of 20 sources found five recurring themes for slowing down: software quality, long-term sustainability, care and ethics, resistance to acceleration, and developing at an appropriate pace.
- Three factors motivate the vision: changing relative costs of human involvement, the timing of oversight opportunities, and interdependencies between pacing decisions across the SDLC.
- Retrospective review may not provide the same opportunities to influence autonomous development as intervention before consequential decisions are implemented, so intervention timing determines oversight quality.
- The authors outlined three research questions and plans to study pacing through developer interviews, quasi-experiments, and simulation-based methods.
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