Happy to announce that I’ll be presenting our paper “Why AI Agents Still Need You” at ASE 2025. Based on a user study with Cursor, we discovered why the presence of tacit knowledge means that making agents collaborative will always be necessary, and argue for designing agents with this in mind.

Aayush Kumar, Yasharth Bajpai, Sumit Gulwani, Gustavo Soares, Emerson Murphy-Hill: How Developers Use AI Agents: When They Work, When They Don't, and Why https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12347 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.12347