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Modern software systems are increasingly developed within rapid continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, where ensuring security prior to release presents significant technical and organizational challenges. Traditional…

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AI-for-Code (AI4Code) systems are reshaping software engineering, with tools like GitHub Copilot accelerating code generation, translation, and vulnerability detection. Alongside these advances, however, security risks remain pervasive:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qilong Wu , Taoran Li , Tianyang Zhou , Varun Chandrasekaran

While large language models provide significant convenience for software development, they can lead to ethical issues in job interviews and student assignments. Therefore, determining whether a piece of code is written by a human or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Basak Demirok , Mucahid Kutlu

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

AI-powered programming language generation (PLG) models have gained increasing attention due to their ability to generate source code of programs in a few seconds with a plain program description. Despite their remarkable performance, many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Wanlun Ma , Yiliao Song , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang

This study compares state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) on their tendency to generate vulnerabilities when writing C programs using a neutral zero-shot prompt. Tihanyi et al. introduced the FormAI dataset at PROMISE'23, featuring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Norbert Tihanyi , Tamas Bisztray , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Ridhi Jain , Lucas C. Cordeiro

AI coding assistants are now central to professional software development, yet their impact on how developers think about and practice security remains poorly understood. While prior work has documented vulnerability rates in AI-generated…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have introduced new paradigms in software development, including vibe coding, AI-assisted coding, and agentic coding, fundamentally reshaping how software is designed, implemented, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hung-Fu Chang , MohammadShokrolah Shirazi , Lizhou Cao , Supannika Koolmanojwong Mobasser

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Vahid Majdinasab , Michael Joshua Bishop , Shawn Rasheed , Arghavan Moradidakhel , Amjed Tahir , Foutse Khomh

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

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a paradigm shift from code generation assistance to autonomous coding agents, enabling a novel development methodology termed "Vibe Coding" where developers validate AI-generated…

The availability of vast amounts of publicly accessible data of source code and the advances in modern language models, coupled with increasing computational resources, have led to a remarkable surge in the development of large language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhou Yang , Jieke Shi , Premkumar Devanbu , David Lo

We are entering a hybrid era in which human developers and AI coding agents work in the same codebases. While industry practice has long optimized code for human comprehension, it is increasingly important to ensure that LLMs with different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Markus Borg , Nadim Hagatulah , Adam Tornhill , Emma Söderberg

$ $Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly utilized in various applications, with code generations being a notable example. While previous research has shown that LLMs have the capability to generate both secure and insecure…

Large-language-model coding tools are now mainstream in software engineering. But as these same tools move human effort up the development stack, they present fresh dangers: 10% of real prompts leak private data, 42% of generated snippets…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Vladislav Belozerov , Peter J Barclay , Askhan Sami

AI Safety is an emerging area of critical importance to the safe adoption and deployment of AI systems. With the rapid proliferation of AI and especially with the recent advancement of Generative AI (or GAI), the technology ecosystem behind…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chen Chen , Xueluan Gong , Ziyao Liu , Weifeng Jiang , Si Qi Goh , Kwok-Yan Lam

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) as coding agents promises to accelerate software development, but their impact on generated code reproducibility remains largely unexplored. This paper presents an empirical study investigating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Bhanu Prakash Vangala , Ali Adibifar , Ashish Gehani , Tanu Malik

Writing secure code is challenging and so it is expected that, following the release of code-generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, developers will use these tools to perform security tasks and use security APIs. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nikhil Patnaik , Joseph Hallett , Awais Rashid

In recent years, large language models have been responsible for great advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). ChatGPT in particular, an AI chatbot developed and recently released by OpenAI, has taken the field to the next…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Raphaël Khoury , Anderson R. Avila , Jacob Brunelle , Baba Mamadou Camara

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) is reshaping software development, fundamentally altering how developers interact with their tools. This shift marks the emergence of Human-AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Agnia Sergeyuk , Ilya Zakharov , Ekaterina Koshchenko , Maliheh Izadi