A Research Agenda on Agents and Software Engineering: Outcomes from the Rio A2SE Seminar

ArXi:2605.11720v1 Announce Type: cross The rise of agentic AI is reshaping software engineering in two intertwined directions: agents are increasingly applied to software engineering tasks, and Agentic AI systems themselves are complex systems that require re-thinking currently established software engineering practices. To chart a coherent research agenda covering the two directions, we organized the A2SE seminar in Rio de Janeiro, bringing together 18 experts from academia and industry.