The Work Behind Delegation: A Framework for Supervising AI Coding Agents — Park et al. (2026)
As AI coding agents carry out development tasks with greater autonomy, developers are shifting from direct implementation toward supervising delegated work. Yet existing research offers limited understanding of how developers organize supervisory activities into connected workflows. Drawing on observations and workflow diagrams from 19 experienced developers, we reconfigure Sheridan's framework of human supervisory control into seven stages and the connecting loops for supervising AI coding agents. We applied the framework to public developer discussions on Reddit and found that…
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