Extension of anti-pattern categories for AI-assisted and agentic development

Determine whether existing sustainability anti-pattern categories require extension or whether entirely new categories are needed to account for the socio-technical dynamics created by AI-assisted development and agentic systems.

Background

The paper emphasizes that AI-assisted development and agentic systems are increasing the speed and automation of software-development decision-making. According to the paper, these changes may create new socio-technical dynamics and may allow sustainability problems to emerge and compound without adequate human oversight.

The authors therefore leave unresolved whether the proposed and existing categories of sustainability anti-patterns adequately represent AI-assisted and agentic development, or whether the field must extend the categories or introduce new ones.

References

We call for future work to investigate whether existing anti-pattern categories require extension or entirely new categories to account for these dynamics.

— No One Left Behind: Cross-Level Analysis for Sustainable Software Engineering  (2609.03861 - Salehi et al., 3 Sep 2026) in Section 4, Research roadmap, “Understanding Sustainability Anti-Patterns”