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Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, built on large language models like GPT-4, are revolutionizing how programming tasks are performed, raising questions about whether code is authored by generative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Oseremen Joy Idialu , Noble Saji Mathews , Rungroj Maipradit , Joanne M. Atlee , Mei Nagappan

The rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence(AI) programming assistants such as GitHub Copilot introduces new challenges in how these software tools address human needs. Many existing evaluation frameworks address technical aspects such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Soroush Heydari

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of GitHub Copilot's deployment and impact on developer productivity at Zoominfo, a leading Go-To-Market (GTM) Intelligence Platform. We describe our systematic four-phase approach to evaluating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Gal Bakal , Ali Dasdan , Yaniv Katz , Michael Kaufman , Guy Levin

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the code generation capabilities of ChatGPT, a prominent large language model, compared to human programmers. A novel dataset of 131 code-generation prompts across 5 categories was curated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Muhammad Fawad Akbar Khan , Max Ramsdell , Erik Falor , Hamid Karimi

Neural code synthesis has reached a point where snippet generation is accurate enough to be considered for integration into human software development workflows. Commercial products aim to increase programmers' productivity, without being…

API misuse introduces security vulnerabilities, system failures, and increases maintenance costs, all of which remain critical challenges in software development. Existing detection approaches rely on static analysis or machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Saikat Mondal , Chanchal K. Roy , Hong Wang , Juan Arguello , Samantha Mathan

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

Teaching Computer Science (CS) students how to comprehend and maintain legacy code bases is a critical challenge in software engineering education. While Generative AI (GenAI) assistants like GitHub Copilot improve task completion speed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yunhan Qiao , Md Istiak Hossain Shihab , Summit Haque , and Christopher Hundhausen

We systematically evaluated the performance of seven large language models in generating programming code using various prompt strategies, programming languages, and task difficulties. GPT-4 substantially outperforms other large language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Wenpin Hou , Zhicheng Ji

This paper presents a comprehensive performance evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in solving programming challenges from Leetcode, a widely used platform for algorithm practice and technical interviews. We began by crawling the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lun Wang , Chuanqi Shi , Shaoshui Du , Yiyi Tao , Yixian Shen , Hang Zheng , Yanxin Shen , Xinyu Qiu

Code-recommendation systems, such as Copilot and CodeWhisperer, have the potential to improve programmer productivity by suggesting and auto-completing code. However, to fully realize their potential, we must understand how programmers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hussein Mozannar , Gagan Bansal , Adam Fourney , Eric Horvitz

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

When graduates of computing degree programs enter the software industry, they will most likely join teams working on legacy code bases developed by people other than themselves. In these so-called brownfield software development settings,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Md Istiak Hossain Shihab , Christopher Hundhausen , Ahsun Tariq , Summit Haque , Yunhan Qiao , Brian Mulanda

[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

Recent leaps in large language models (LLMs) caused a revolution in programming tools (like GitHub Copilot) that can help with code generation, debugging, and even performance optimization. In this paper, we focus on the capabilities of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Matyáš Brabec , Jiří Klepl , Michal Töpfer , Martin Kruliš

Recent developments in deep learning have resulted in code-generation models that produce source code from natural language and code-based prompts with high accuracy. This is likely to have profound effects in the classroom, where novices…

Motivation. Trust in generative AI programming assistants is a vital attitude that impacts how programmers use those programming assistants. Programmers that are over-trusting may be too reliant on their tools, leading to incorrect or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anshul Shah , Thomas Rexin , Elena Tomson , Leo Porter , William G. Griswold , Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj

Background: Recent advancements in large language models have motivated the practical use of such models in code generation and program synthesis. However, little is known about the effects of such tools on code readability and visual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Naser Al Madi

This paper presents a large-scale study that investigates the bug resolution characteristics among popular Github projects written in different programming languages. We explore correlations but, of course, we cannot infer causation.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jie M. Zhang , Feng Li , Dan Hao , Meng Wang , Hao Tang , Lu Zhang , Mark Harman

The availability of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot is reshaping the way in which software is developed, evolved, and maintained. Oftentimes, developers leave traces of such an usage in…