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AI-powered code generation models have been developing rapidly, allowing developers to expedite code generation and thus improve their productivity. These models are trained on large corpora of code (primarily sourced from public…

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This paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code across public GitHub repositories. We collected and analyzed 7,703 files explicitly attributed to four major AI tools: ChatGPT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Maximilian Schreiber , Pascal Tippe

There is burgeoning interest in designing AI-based systems to assist humans in designing computing systems, including tools that automatically generate computer code. The most notable of these comes in the form of the first self-described…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Hammond Pearce , Baleegh Ahmad , Benjamin Tan , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Ramesh Karri

Code generation tools driven by artificial intelligence have recently become more popular due to advancements in deep learning and natural language processing that have increased their capabilities. The proliferation of these tools may be a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Owura Asare , Meiyappan Nagappan , N. Asokan

As software development practices increasingly adopt AI-powered tools, ensuring that such tools can support secure coding has become critical. This study evaluates the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot's recently introduced code review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Amena Amro , Manar H. Alalfi

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has become a central component of many development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) that support software practitioners across multiple programming tasks, including code completion, documentation, and…

With the recent advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-based code generation tools become a practical solution for software development. GitHub Copilot, the AI pair programmer, utilizes machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiyu Zhou , Peng Liang , Beiqi Zhang , Zengyang Li , Aakash Ahmad , Mojtaba Shahin , Muhammad Waseem

This paper aims to evaluate GitHub Copilot's generated code quality based on the LeetCode problem set using a custom automated framework. We evaluate the results of Copilot for 4 programming languages: Java, C++, Python3 and Rust. We aim to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ilja Siroš , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

Sonatype's 2023 report found that 97% of developers and security leads integrate generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), into their development process. Concerns about the security implications of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sivana Hamer , Marcelo d'Amorim , Laurie Williams

The increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development has garnered significant attention from researchers evaluating the capabilities and limitations of LLMs for code generation. However, much of the research focuses on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xiao Yu , Lei Liu , Xing Hu , Jin Liu , Xin Xia

Context: AI-assisted code generation tools have become increasingly prevalent in software engineering, offering the ability to generate code from natural language prompts or partial code inputs. Notable examples of these tools include…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Burak Yetiştiren , Işık Özsoy , Miray Ayerdem , Eray Tüzün

AI assistants for coding are on the rise. However one of the reasons developers and companies avoid harnessing their full potential is the questionable security of the generated code. This paper first reviews the current state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jakub Res , Ivan Homoliak , Martin Perešíni , Aleš Smrčka , Kamil Malinka , Petr Hanacek

With the advances in machine learning, there is a growing interest in AI-enabled tools for autocompleting source code. GitHub Copilot, also referred to as the "AI Pair Programmer", has been trained on billions of lines of open source GitHub…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Beiqi Zhang , Peng Liang , Xiyu Zhou , Aakash Ahmad , Muhammad Waseem

Several advances in deep learning have been successfully applied to the software development process. Of recent interest is the use of neural language models to build tools, such as Copilot, that assist in writing code. In this paper we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Owura Asare , Meiyappan Nagappan , N. Asokan

As one of the most popular dynamic languages, Python experiences a decrease in readability and maintainability when code smells are present. Recent advancements in Large Language Models have sparked growing interest in AI-enabled tools for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Beiqi Zhang , Peng Liang , Qiong Feng , Yujia Fu , Zengyang Li

Despite the impressive performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development activities, recent studies show the concern of introducing vulnerabilities into software codebase by AI programming assistants (e.g., Copilot,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Sung Yong Kim , Zhiyu Fan , Yannic Noller , Abhik Roychoudhury

The security of code generated by large language models (LLMs) is a significant concern, as studies indicate that such code often contains vulnerabilities and lacks essential defensive programming constructs. This work focuses on examining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Muhammad Usman Shahid , Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Rajiv Ranjan

The evolution of LLM has resulted in coding-focused models that are able to produce code snippets with high accuracy. More and more AI coding assistant tools are now available, leading to greater integration of AI coding assistants into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Neha Rani , Jeevan Ram Munnangi , Austin Matthew Spangler , Donald Honeycutt

Generative AI technologies promise to transform the product development lifecycle. This study evaluates the efficiency gains, areas for improvement, and emerging challenges of using GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Ruchika Pandey , Prabhat Singh , Raymond Wei , Shaila Shankar

With the advances in machine learning, there is a growing interest in AI-enabled tools for autocompleting source code. GitHub Copilot has been trained on billions of lines of open source GitHub code, and is one of such tools that has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Beiqi Zhang , Peng Liang , Xiyu Zhou , Aakash Ahmad , Muhammad Waseem
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