Gabriele Bavota // #SISeminarSeries​​ // March 5, 2026

Who's Really in Control? Human–AI Collaboration in Software Engineering ABSTRACT—In this talk, I will share findings from two recent studies investigating the effects of AI assistance on code writing and code review. Our results shed some light on the trade-offs involved in adopting AI tools, highlighting the hidden costs that may accompany the apparent gains in productivity. BIO—Gabriele Bavota is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, where he is part of the Software Institute and he leads the SEART research group. He is the Principal Investigator of the DEVINTA ERC Starting grant. He received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 2013. His research interests include AI4SE, software maintenance and evolution, mining software repositories, and empirical software engineering. ℹ️ https://si.usi.ch/seminars