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Configurable AI Coding Assistants: Designing For Developers Who Like to Be in Control

AI coding assistants are now widely used in professional development, yet they offer only limited ways for developers to control how they behave. In this paper, we investigate what kinds of configurations experienced developers want in coding assistants, how they prioritize different types of configuration needs, and which interface mechanisms they prefer. We first synthesize product documentation and prior research on trust and personalization to compile a list of 33 configuration options, grou

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Published: 10 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (10 July 2026), “Configurable AI Coding Assistants: Designing For Developers Who Like to Be in Control,” evidence record 10185, https://ethics.ai/record/10185 (originally published by arXiv cs.HC).

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