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Recent work has shown that prompting language models with code-like representations of natural language leads to performance improvements on structured reasoning tasks. However, such tasks comprise only a small subset of all natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Li Zhang , Liam Dugan , Hainiu Xu , Chris Callison-Burch

When designing a program, both novice programmers and seasoned developers alike often sketch out -- or, perhaps more famously, whiteboard -- their ideas. Yet despite the introduction of natively multimodal Generative AI models, work on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-12 David H. Smith , S. Moonwara A. Monisha , Annapurna Vadaparty , Leo Porter , Daniel Zingaro

Large language models make it easy for students to delegate writing, analysis, and problem-solving to automated systems, bypassing the effortful engagement that produces lasting understanding. We introduce a practical framework that helps…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Philipp Haindl , Oliver Eigner , Peter Kieseberg

Prompts used in recent large language model based applications are often fixed and lengthy, leading to significant computational overhead. To address this challenge, we propose Generative Prompt Internalization (GenPI), a lightweight method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haebin Shin , Lei Ji , Yeyun Gong , Sungdong Kim , Eunbi Choi , Minjoon Seo

Synthesis of digital artifacts conditioned on user prompts has become an important paradigm facilitating an explosion of use cases with generative AI. However, such models often fail to connect the generated outputs and desired target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Melvin Wong , Yew-Soon Ong , Abhishek Gupta , Kavitesh K. Bali , Caishun Chen

[Background/Context] AI assistants like GitHub Copilot are transforming software engineering; several studies have highlighted productivity improvements. However, their impact on code quality, particularly in terms of maintainability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Markus Borg , Dave Hewett , Donald Graham , Noric Couderc , Emma Söderberg , Luke Church , Dave Farley

Prompting method is regarded as one of the crucial progress for few-shot nature language processing. Recent research on prompting moves from discrete tokens based ``hard prompts'' to continuous ``soft prompts'', which employ learnable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Yutai Hou , Hongyuan Dong , Xinghao Wang , Bohan Li , Wanxiang Che

A great part of software development involves conceptualizing or communicating the underlying procedures and logic that needs to be expressed in programs. One major difficulty of programming is turning concept into code, especially when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Frank F. Xu , Bogdan Vasilescu , Graham Neubig

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasingly used in software engineering (SE) for tasks such as code, test, and documentation generation. However, engineers often face uncertainty about when to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Vahid Garousi , Zafar Jafarov , Aytan Mövsümova , Atif Namazov

Students are increasingly relying on Generative AI (GAI) to support their writing-a key pedagogical practice in education. In GAI-assisted writing, students can delegate core cognitive tasks (e.g., generating ideas and turning them into…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Kaixun Yang , Mladen Raković , Zhiping Liang , Lixiang Yan , Zijie Zeng , Yizhou Fan , Dragan Gašević , Guanliang Chen

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools are increasingly adopted in education, yet many educators lack structured guidance on responsible and context sensitive prompt engineering, particularly in African and other resource…

This Monte Carlo simulation examines how prompt engineering strategies shape the quality of large language model (LLM)--generated personality assessment items within the AI-GENIE framework for generative psychometrics. Item pools targeting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lara Lee Russell-Lasalandra , Hudson Golino

GenAI solutions like GitHub Copilot have been shown to increase the productivity of software developers. Yet prior work remains unclear on the quality of code produced and the challenges of maintaining it in software projects. If quality…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-29 Feiyang Xu , Poonacha K. Medappa , Murat M. Tunc , Martijn Vroegindeweij , Jan C. Fransoo

Programming is essential to modern scientific research, yet most scientists report inadequate training for the software development their work demands. Generative AI tools capable of code generation may support scientific programmers, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gabrielle O'Brien , Alexis Parker , Nasir Eisty , Jeffrey Carver

In software development there is a constant pressure to produce code faster and faster without compromising on quality. New tools supporting developers are created in response to this demand. Currently a new generation of such solutions is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Mateusz Jaworski , Dariusz Piotrkowski

This paper introduces prompted software engineering (PSE), which integrates prompt engineering to build effective prompts for language-based AI models, to enhance the software development process. PSE enables the use of AI models in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Dae-Kyoo Kim

In recent years Generative Machine Learning systems have advanced significantly. A current wave of generative systems use text prompts to create complex imagery, video, even 3D datasets. The creators of these systems claim a revolution in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Jon McCormack , Camilo Cruz Gambardella , Nina Rajcic , Stephen James Krol , Maria Teresa Llano , Meng Yang

This study aims to explore the best practices for utilizing GenAI as a programming tool, through a comparative analysis between GPT-4 and GLM-4. By evaluating prompting strategies at different levels of complexity, we identify that simplest…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Angus Yang , Zehan Li , Jie Li

Prompt programming treats large language model prompts as software components with typed interfaces. Based on a literature survey of 15 recent works from 2023 to 2025, we observe a consistent trend: type systems are central to emerging…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Abhijit Paul

Software documentation is essential for program comprehension, developer onboarding, code review, and long-term maintenance. Yet producing quality documentation manually is time-consuming and frequently yields incomplete or inconsistent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Afia Farjana , Zaiyu Cheng , Antonio Mastropaolo