Story Arena: A Multi-Agent Environment for Envisioning the Future of Software Engineering

TL;DR

Story Arena is a multi-agent environment where AI agents collaboratively envision and narrate future scenarios of software engineering, exploring themes like trust, comprehension, and AI's role in human-AI co-creation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multi-agent environment for collaborative future envisioning and narrative construction in software engineering.

Findings

Generated a shared vision of future software engineering.

Created a narrative exploring AI-human collaboration themes.

Demonstrated AI's capacity for creative storytelling in technical contexts.

Abstract

What better way to understand the impact of AI on software engineering than to ask AI itself? We constructed Story Arena, a multi-agent "writer's room" in which multiple AI agents, independently imbued with a position statement on the future of software engineering, converse with each other to develop a shared vision. They then use this shared vision to collaboratively construct a design fiction that depicts this vision in narrative form. We present "The Code of Trust," a short fiction that investigates themes of human comprehension, trust, content ownership, augmentation vs. replacement, and uncertain futures in human-AI co-creation.