These Aren't the Reviews You're Looking For How Humans Review AI-Generated Pull Requests

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Authors Kacper Duma, Patryk WrΓ³blewski, Jagoda BobiΕ„ska, Julia Winiarska, Piotr Przymus arXiv ID 2605.02273 Category cs.SE: Software Engineering Citations 0 Venue EASE 2026
Abstract
We analyze code review interactions for AI-generated pull requests (PRs) on GitHub using the AIDev dataset and compare them to human-authored PRs within the same repositories. We find that most AI-generated PRs receive no review and, when reviewed, are largely dominated by AI agents rather than humans. Human-authored PRs are more likely to receive human-only review and to attract direct human feedback. In contrast, reviews of AI-generated PRs more often take the form of automation-mediated interaction, with human involvement frequently expressed through agent steering rather than standalone evaluation. These results indicate systematic differences in how review activity is structured in agentic workflows and raise challenges for interpreting review metrics as indicators of human oversight in large-scale mining studies.
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