Yongren Shi

When Bots Join the Team: Bot Adoption and the Institutional Fabric of Open-Source Software Projects

Yongren Shi, Wenyi Gong

AI agents are joining human teams, raising a basic question: when an automated agent becomes a regular participant, does group organization strengthen or weaken? We study this question in open-source software, where bots open pull requests, review code, and merge changes alongsid…Read more