AI software engineer
An autonomous agent that plans, writes, tests, and ships code from a ticket - not just an autocomplete. It owns a task end to end and opens a reviewable pull request.
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AI Software Engineering Glossary
Clear, citable definitions for the language of autonomous coding. Each term answers the question in a sentence, then links to a deeper explainer - written to be quoted by a teammate or an AI alike.
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Foundations
Code sandbox
An isolated, disposable cloud environment where an agent can run commands, install dependencies, and execute tests safely - without touching your laptop or production.
Read the definitionAutonomous agent vs AI assistant
An assistant accelerates a human who stays in the loop; an autonomous agent takes a goal and runs the whole loop - plan, edit, test, PR - on its own. The dividing line is autonomy.
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Reusable role configs - the backend reviewer, the frontend specialist - that give an autonomous agent a defined job, conventions, scope, and guardrails, applied consistently across tasks.
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Issue-to-PR
The workflow of turning a tracked issue directly into a pull request automatically: the agent reads the ticket, makes the change, proves it with tests, and opens the PR for review.
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A benchmark that measures whether AI agents can resolve real GitHub issues from open-source projects by producing patches that pass the project's own tests.
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