Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The paper that formalises what builders already knew For the past 18 months, teams shipping with AI coding agents have been running ahead of the academic literature. They knew that something structural had changed — that agents were no longer assistants completing a single prompt but orchestrators driving entire development cycles. The vocabulary to describe the shift, however, was inconsistent and often borrowed awkwardly from classical software engineering. A paper published on arXiv in June 2026 — "Agentic Software: How AI Agents Are Restructuring the Software Paradigm" — gives the shift a formal name and a rigorous framework. The core argument is direct: AI agents are now the primary orchestrators in agentic software systems. They are not tools invoked by deterministic code. They are…
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