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Research2026-06-14 · source-backed
A 13-month causal study of 151 Java repos, 74 adopting agentic AI against 77 controls over 1,811 monthly snapshots, found architectural smell counts essentially flat (+1.1%) while lines of code jumped +12.8% (arXiv). That produced a misleading 6.7% drop in smell density. AI didn't improve your architecture. It inflated the denominator. If you're measuring AI-assisted code quality with density-normalized metrics, you're being deceived by your own math. Count absolute smells.
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