papersSEP 10 04:00 UTC
Study examines how LLM-generated comments influence code generation
A new arXiv paper investigates the natural-language comments that large language models produce while writing code, which end up as part of the context for generating subsequent code. It remains unclear which properties of these comments actually affect the quality of the generated code. The study sets out to identify what makes such self-generated comments helpful rather than distracting.