Rethinking Software Development as a Self-Adaptive Socio-Technical System

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13461v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:26:49 GMT
• Title: Rethinking Software Development as a Self-Adaptive Socio-Technical System
• Abstract summary: Agentic AI is expanding across various software engineering activities, yet human-agent organization is typically treated as fixed.<n>We propose viewing software development as a self-adaptive socio-technical system in which both the software project and the development configuration adapt as goals, evidence, uncertainty, and risk evolve.
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• Abstract: Agentic AI is expanding across various software engineering activities, yet human-agent organization is typically treated as fixed, which is problematic because development configurations may become suboptimal as development context evolves. We propose viewing software development as a self-adaptive socio-technical system in which both the software project and the development configuration (participants, responsibilities, authority, information, and verification) adapt as goals, evidence, uncertainty, and risk evolve. This yields two coupled forms of adaptation: evolving the software and reconfiguring how subsequent engineering is performed. We illustrate the idea with a proof of concept, outlining challenges and future plans.

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