@inproceedings{tang-etal-2026-coding, title = "How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions", author = "Tang, Ningzhi and Chen, Chaoran and Xu, Gelei and Shi, Yiyu and Huang, Yu and McMillan, Collin and Dong, Tao and Li, Toby Jia-Jun", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1011/", pages = "23264--23282", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }