15 papers
When AI Joins the Team! A Model of How AI Adoption Relates To Social Patterns in Software Engineering Teams
Giusy Annunziata, Rudrajit Choudhuri, Anita Sarma +2
Context: The growing adoption of AI-assisted development tools is changing how software teams collaborate, share knowledge, and coordinate, yet its consequences for team social dyn…
How Do Developers Maintain and Evolve Their Agents' Instructions? An Empirical Study
Gianmario Voria, Alfonso Cannavale, Andrea De Lucia +3
Context. Autonomous coding agents are increasingly used in software development, shifting parts of the engineering process to AI assistance. While this automation brings clear bene…
Exploring Individual Factors in the Adoption of LLMs for Specific Software Engineering Purposes
Stefano Lambiase, Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba +2
Context: The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) is transforming software development, significantly enhancing software engineering (SE) processes. Research has explored their r…
Bias Ahead: Sensitive Prompts as Early Warnings for Fairness in Large Language Models
Gianmario Voria, Martina De Lucia, Alessandra Raia +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly integrated into software systems, offering powerful capabilities but also raising concerns about fairness. Existing fairness ben…
SCOPE: A Dataset of Stereotyped Prompts for Counterfactual Fairness Assessment of LLMs
Alessandra Parziale, Gianmario Voria, Valeria Pontillo +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) now serve as the foundation for a wide range of applications, from conversational assistants to decision support tools, making the issue of fairness in…
Tracing Stereotypes in Pre-trained Transformers: From Biased Neurons to Fairer Models
Gianmario Voria, Moses Openja, Foutse Khomh +2
The advent of transformer-based language models has reshaped how AI systems process and generate text. In software engineering (SE), these models now support diverse activities, ac…