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Background: AI-powered code generation, fueled by Large Language Models (LLMs), is revolutionizing software development. Models like OpenAI's Codex and GPT-4, alongside DeepSeek, leverage vast code and natural language datasets. However,…

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Code-generating Artificial Intelligence has gained popularity within both professional and educational programming settings over the past several years. While research and pedagogy are beginning to cope with this change, computing students…

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Large language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in code generation tasks across various programming languages. However, their outputs often contain subtle but critical vulnerabilities, posing significant risks when deployed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Alexander Sternfeld , Andrei Kucharavy , Ljiljana Dolamic

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Copilot, are transforming software development by automating code generation and, arguably, enable rapid prototyping, support education, and boost productivity. Therefore, correctness and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Robin Beer , Alexander Feix , Tim Guttzeit , Tamara Muras , Vincent Müller , Maurice Rauscher , Florian Schäffler , Welf Löwe

Code generation systems have been extensively developed in recent years to generate source code based on natural language instructions. However, despite their advancements, these systems still face robustness issues where even slightly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Ming Yan , Junjie Chen , Jie M. Zhang , Xuejie Cao , Chen Yang , Mark Harman

With the advent of powerful neural language models, AI-based systems to assist developers in coding tasks are becoming widely available; Copilot is one such system. Copilot uses Codex, a large language model (LLM), to complete code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Kevin Jesse , Toufique Ahmed , Premkumar T. Devanbu , Emily Morgan

Code generation models are not robust to small perturbations, which often lead to incorrect generations and significantly degrade the performance of these models. Although improving the robustness of code generation models is crucial to…

AI-powered programming assistants are increasingly gaining popularity, with GitHub Copilot alone used by over a million developers worldwide. These tools are far from perfect, however, producing code suggestions that may be incorrect in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Kasra Ferdowsi , Ruanqianqian Huang , Michael B. James , Nadia Polikarpova , Sorin Lerner

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software development, generating code that ranges from short snippets to substantial project components. As AI-generated code becomes more common in real-world repositories, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Tianhao Mao , Dongfang Zhao , Haixu Tang , Xiaofeng Wang , Hang Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) are now widely used to draft and refactor code, but code that works is not necessarily secure. We evaluate secure code generation using the Instruct Prime, which eliminated compliance-required prompts and cue…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Arup Datta , Ahmed Aljohani , Hyunsook Do

The growing integration of AI tools in software development, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, has revolutionized how developers approach coding tasks. However, achieving high-quality code often requires iterative…

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During Automated Program Repair (APR), it can be challenging to synthesize correct patches for real-world systems in general-purpose programming languages. Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be helpful "copilots" in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Yuxiang Wei , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Lingming Zhang

As open-source AI software projects become an integral component in the AI software development, it is critical to develop a novel methods to ensure and measure the security of the open-source projects for developers. Code ownership,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiawen Wen , Dong Yuan , Lei Ma , Huaming Chen

The increasing use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern software engineering, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) for code generation, has transformed professional software development by boosting productivity and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sabrina Kaniewski , Dieter Holstein , Fabian Schmidt , Tobias Heer

Recent studies have adopted pre-trained language models, such as CodeT5 and CodeGPT, for automated program generation tasks like code generation, repair, and translation. Numerous language model-based approaches have been proposed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yonghui Liu , Li Li

The use of generative AI-based coding assistants like ChatGPT and Github Copilot is a reality in contemporary software development. Many of these tools are provided as remote APIs. Using third-party APIs raises data privacy and security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Negar Alizadeh , Boris Belchev , Nishant Saurabh , Patricia Kelbert , Fernando Castor

Generative AI (genAI) tools, such as ChatGPT or Copilot, are advertised to improve developer productivity and are being integrated into software development. However, misaligned trust, skepticism, and usability concerns can impede the…

Automated code generation can be a powerful technique for software development, significantly reducing developers' efforts and time required to create new code by generating it automatically based on requirements. Recently, OpenAI's…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chao Liu , Xuanlin Bao , Hongyu Zhang , Neng Zhang , Haibo Hu , Xiaohong Zhang , Meng Yan

Language models for code (CodeLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for code-related tasks, outperforming traditional methods and standard machine learning approaches. However, these models are susceptible to security vulnerabilities, drawing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuchen Chen , Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Zhenpeng Chen , Yifei Ge , Tingxu Han , Quanjun Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen , Baowen Xu

The ongoing shortage of skilled developers, particularly in security-critical software development, has led organizations to increasingly adopt AI-powered development tools to boost productivity and reduce reliance on limited human…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nadine Jost , Benjamin Berens , Manuel Karl , Stefan Albert Horstmann , Martin Johns , Alena Naiakshina