arxivcs.SEcs.AIcs.CY2026-07-12
Commenting with Copilot: A Taxonomy and Multi-Year Analysis of Student Code-Generation Specifications
Nasser Giacaman, Valerio Terragni, Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar
As AI code tools become integrated into programming environments, students increasingly describe intended behavior in natural language and rely on these tools to generate code, shifting emphasis from code writing to specification. Yet little is known about the comments students w…