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GitHub Copilot, an extension for the Visual Studio Code development environment powered by the large-scale language model Codex, makes automatic program synthesis available for software developers. This model has been extensively studied in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Dominik Sobania , Martin Briesch , Franz Rothlauf

Automatic program synthesis is a long-lasting dream in software engineering. Recently, a promising Deep Learning (DL) based solution, called Copilot, has been proposed by OpenAI and Microsoft as an industrial product. Although some studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Vahid Majdinasab , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh , Michel C. Desmarais , Zhen Ming , Jiang

GitHub Copilot is transforming software development by automating tasks and boosting productivity through AI driven code generation. In this paper, we conduct a literature survey to synthesize insights on Copilot's impact on productivity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Suresh Babu Nettur , Shanthi Karpurapu , Unnati Nettur , Likhit Sagar Gajja , Sravanthy Myneni , Akhil Dusi

This bachelor's thesis examines the capabilities of ChatGPT 4 in code generation across 19 programming languages. The study analyzed solution rates across three difficulty levels, types of errors encountered, and code quality in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-07 L. C. Gilbert

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

We systematically study the quality of 4,066 ChatGPT-generated code implemented in two popular programming languages, i.e., Java and Python, for 2,033 programming tasks. The goal of this work is three folds. First, we analyze the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Yue Liu , Thanh Le-Cong , Ratnadira Widyasari , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Li Li , Xuan-Bach D. Le , David Lo

ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) promise to revolutionize software development by automatically generating code from program specifications. We assess the performance of ChatGPT's GPT-3.5-turbo model on LeetCode, a popular…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Minda Li , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and DeepSeek are transforming software engineering by automating key tasks, including code generation, testing, and debugging. As these models become integral to development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Everton Guimaraes , Nathalia Nascimento , Chandan Shivalingaiah , Asish Nelapati

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

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have become popular among programming students. Students use LLMs to assist them in programming courses, including generating source code. Previous work has evaluated the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Emir Catir , Robin Claesson , Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi

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

Our everyday lives now heavily rely on artificial intelligence (AI) powered large language models (LLMs). Like regular users, programmers are also benefiting from the newest large language models. In response to the critical role that AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Md Kamrul Siam , Huanying Gu , Jerry Q. Cheng

The increasing use of large language model (LLM)-powered code generation tools, such as GitHub Copilot, is transforming software engineering practices. This paper investigates how developers validate and repair code generated by Copilot and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ningzhi Tang , Meng Chen , Zheng Ning , Aakash Bansal , Yu Huang , Collin McMillan , Toby Jia-Jun Li

This study evaluates the capabilities of ChatGPT versions 3.5 and 4 in generating code across a diverse range of programming languages. Our objective is to assess the effectiveness of these AI models for generating scientific programs. To…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Patrick Diehl , Noujoud Nader , Steve Brandt , Hartmut Kaiser

This study presents a comprehensive empirical evaluation of six state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) for code generation, including both general-purpose and code-specialized models. Using a dataset of 944 real-world LeetCode…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Le Zhang , Suresh Kothari

AI-based code assistants are increasingly popular as a means to enhance productivity and improve code quality. This study compares four AI-based code assistants, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, ChatGPT, and Google Bard, in method generation tasks,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Vincenzo Corso , Leonardo Mariani , Daniela Micucci , Oliviero Riganelli

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

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

Powered by recent advances in code-generating models, AI assistants like Github Copilot promise to change the face of programming forever. But what is this new face of programming? We present the first grounded theory analysis of how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shraddha Barke , Michael B. James , Nadia Polikarpova