The introductory programming sequence has been the focus of much research in computing
education. The recent advent of several viable and freely-available AI-driven code …

Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Bard, have revolutionized
natural language understanding and generation. They possess deep language …

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been applied in software engineering to
perform tasks such as translating code between programming languages, generating code …

Program synthesis strives to generate a computer program as a solution to a given problem
specification, expressed with input-output examples or natural language descriptions. The …

Recently, the ChatGPT LLM has received great attention: it can be used as a bot for
discussing source code, prompting it to suggest changes, provide descriptions or even …

Generative AI tools hold promise to increase human productivity. This paper presents results
from a controlled experiment with GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer. Recruited software …

AI code generators like OpenAI Codex have the potential to assist novice programmers by
generating code from natural language descriptions, however, over-reliance might …

Over the past decade, predictive language modeling for code has proven to be a valuable
tool for enabling new forms of automation for developers. More recently, we have seen the …

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 …

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 …