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Precedent or Intent? What Coding Agents Follow When Evolving Existing Code

Zhu, Haichao et al.
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Existing code reveals past implementation decisions but rarely explains the reasoning behind them. When coding agents implement new features or modify existing functionality, past decisions may conflict with new task instructions. This raises a fundamental question for agentic software evolution: wh
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