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Autonotism: the choices we could have made in AI-assisted programming

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An exploratory analysis of nearly 6,000 real-world coding agent sessions is reported, finding that such records support analysis of turn authorship, degrees of human specification, and subsequent machine activity, but they cannot establish displaced choice or programmer awareness.

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