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Commenting with Copilot: A Taxonomy and Multi-Year Analysis of Student Code-Generation Specifications

arXiv:2607.10674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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 write as specifications in AI-assisted programming tasks. We analyze a four-year dataset of undergraduate programming submissions and reflections from tasks in which stude

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Published: 14 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Children & education · Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (14 July 2026), “Commenting with Copilot: A Taxonomy and Multi-Year Analysis of Student Code-Generation Specifications,” evidence record 1558, https://ethics.ai/record/1558 (originally published by arXiv cs.CY).

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