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Are Prompt Engineering and TODO Comments Friends or Foes? An Evaluation on GitHub Copilot
We show that GitHub Copilot can generate code with the symptoms of SATD, both prompted and unprompted. Moreover, we demonstrate the tool’s ability to automatically repay SATD under different circumstances and qualitatively investigate the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful comments.
David OBrien, Sumon Biswas, Sayem Imtiaz, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab, Hridesh Rajan
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Are Prompt Engineering and TODO Comments Friends or Foes? An Evaluation on GitHub Copilot