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From Conversation to Contribution: Characterizing Coding Agent in Open-Source Software
Zihan Fang, Yueke Zhang, Ningzhi Tang +3
AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor have evolved from code-suggestion tools into conversational collaborators, enabling vibe-coding workflows in which developers…
EyeMulator: Improving Code Language Models by Mimicking Human Visual Attention
Yifan Zhang, Chen Huang, Yueke Zhang +5
Code Language Models (CodeLLMs) learn token importance from data correlations, whereas human developers attend selectively to semantically salient code. We present EyeMulator, a mo…
Exploring Direct Instruction and Summary-Mediated Prompting in LLM-Assisted Code Modification
Ningzhi Tang, Emory Smith, Yu Huang +2
This paper presents a study of using large language models (LLMs) in modifying existing code. While LLMs for generating code have been widely studied, their role in code modificati…
AI-Mediated Code Comment Improvement
Maria Dhakal, Chia-Yi Su, Robert Wallace +5
This paper describes an approach to improve code comments along different quality axes by rewriting those comments with customized Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools. We cond…
Programmer Visual Attention During Context-Aware Code Summarization
Robert Wallace, Aakash Bansal, Zachary Karas +4
Abridged: Programmer attention represents the visual focus of programmers on parts of the source code in pursuit of programming tasks. We conducted an in-depth human study with 10…
Context-aware Code Summary Generation
Chia-Yi Su, Aakash Bansal, Yu Huang +2
Code summary generation is the task of writing natural language descriptions of a section of source code. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI-based technol…