Towards Automatically Pruning Logging Code with Coding Agents: How Far Are We?

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arXiv:2610.04716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Logging code supports debugging, monitoring, and software maintenance, but excessive logging can add noise, impose runtime overhead, and obscure diagnostic information. While prior research has extensively studied logging code generation and modification, logging removal remains comparatively underexplored. In this paper, we study developer logging removal practices and explore the use of coding agents for this task. We extract and manually valid