@inproceedings{patel-etal-2026-agent, title = "Is Agent Code Less Maintainable Than Human Code?", author = "Patel, Shaswat P and Hou, Betty Li and Purohit, Arun and Xu, Kai and Pan, Jane and He, He and Chen, Valerie", 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.2528/", pages = "57491--57514", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }