arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-02
An Exploratory Study on LLM-Generated Code and Comments in Code Repositories
Yongyi Ji, Jiaji Wang, Yi Zhou, Fuxiang Chen, Hongji Yang
The use of LLMs in software development has become increasingly widespread on tasks such as code generation and summarization. Reports from large technology companies showed that around 20% to 30% of their code are generated by LLMs. However, there remains skepticism about the pr…