News / #code Tag Code 186 articles archived under #code · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — Machine Learning research 5h ago Vero: Can AI Agents Build Formally Verified Software Repositories? arXiv:2608.13522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly used for programming, but do not provide any guarantee on the correctness of generated code. Verified code generation, in which an agent produces both an implementation and a machine-checked proof of its… 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 18h ago Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character. 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1d ago Do Influence Tactics Matter? Investigating Prompt Framing Effects in LLM Code Generation arXiv:2608.11513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software engineering workflows, helping developers write, debug, test, and maintain code. While prompt wording and structure are known to influence model performance,… 19 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 1d ago Spark-to-Paper: End-to-End Research Paper Generation as a Composable Skill Abstract Spark-to-Paper is a lightweight, composable workflow inside coding assistants that generates research papers by separating planning from reporting, enforcing evidence-based claim revision, and using integrity checks to reduce fabrication. Generated by… 9 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 1d ago Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence. The post Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 7 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3d ago Task-to-Model Optimization for Enterprise LLM Coding Assistants: A Data-Driven Framework for Cost-Optimal Routing arXiv:2608.08528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI coding assistants incur substantial inference spend, and naive token-cost minimization often fails to reduce end-to-end cost once retries, escalations, and developer wait time are included. We present Task-to-Model… 33 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 3d ago Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 37 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago Characterizing the Quality Profile of AI-Generated C++ in Production Abstract The widespread integration of AI coding assistants offers undeniable boosts to engineering velocity. Yet, recent studies point to a growing trade-off, revealing persistent challenges with code quality and maintainability. Industry leaders, including frontier AI labs,… 17 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 7d ago A Study of LLMs' Preferences for Libraries and Programming Languages arXiv:2503.17181v4 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) in code generation, existing evaluations focus on functional correctness or syntactic validity, overlooking how LLMs make critical design choices such as which library or… 34 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 7d ago A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow. The post A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 31 r/LocalLLaMA community 8d ago 40% speedup of MoE training with faster megakernel, by cursor, of all people (for B200s) daily reminder not to trust benchmarks and run it yourself. claimed e2e speedup is ~40%, forwards are ~140% faster I would wager that compared to a naive kernel anyone can write it's more in the range of 10-20% faster e2e in reality, if at all, but hey, it's free and open!… 8 Latent.Space news-outlet 9d ago [AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate 12 Vercel — AI dev-tools 9d ago Muse Spark 1.2 is now available on Vercel AI Gateway Muse Spark 1.2 from Meta is now available on AI Gateway. It is a coding-focused update to the previous Muse Spark model. While keeping its general capabilities, 1.2 ships with improvements in code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding, and end-to-end developer… 22 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 9d ago How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code. The post How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 19 r/MachineLearning community 9d ago NeurIPS 2026 post-rebuttal score distribution poll [D] As the title suggests, because there's no data on Papercopilot yet, and people have been talking about the scores being lower in general than last year, I thought it could be interesting to survey the average score distribution after the rebuttal phase (not considering… 26 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 11d ago Fewer Clarifications, Better Code: Benchmarking Cross-Session Personalized Ambiguity Adaptation in Coding Assistants Abstract AI-assisted coding increasingly translates informal user intent into executable software, yet coding requests often contain ambiguities that recur in user-specific ways across tasks and sessions. Existing disambiguation methods typically address each ambiguous request… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago Simulation Code Generation for Fluid Systems using Large Language Models: Benchmarking Models and Prompting Strategies arXiv:2607.29389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated a strong ability to generate syntactically correct code from natural-language specifications. In this study, we explore how LLMs can be harnessed to automatically translate a neutral… 26 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 12d ago Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135257 Points: 200 # Comments: 84 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 14d ago RLPF: Reinforcement Learning from Performance Feedback for Code Generation arXiv:2607.27271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Code models are increasingly trained with execution feedback, but most training signals still stop at correctness. This leaves an important gap for systems code: two programs can pass the same tests while differing greatly in… 8 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 14d ago Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app. The post Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 13 r/MachineLearning community 15d ago I taught an LSTM to move a mouse like a human [P] Precursor was recently released. It's a bot detector that uses cursor tracking. I thought it would be a fun challenge to train a deep neural network that could learn human mouse movements. It's an 2-layer LSTM model with a Mixture Density Network at the end. The results are… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago From Interface to Inference: Eliciting Any-Order Inference from Any-Order Models arXiv:2607.26504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many discrete reasoning tasks, such as code generation, are inherently non-causal: programmers move between high-level structure and local details, a process we call any-order inference. For autoregressive language models, which… 12 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 15d ago (Im)Paired Programming: Coding Agents Improve Productivity but Harm Understanding arXiv:2607.26375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents (e.g., Cursor) improve developer productivity by optimizing task completion, but shifting users from writing code to prompting and reviewing may harm their understanding, impeding oversight, learning, and… 35 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 15d ago How to Self-Host a Validated AI Coding Assistant with NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails Deploying an AI coding assistant in a regulated, sovereign, or source-sensitive environment, often comes with challenges. Three common issues are: the source... 33 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 15d ago Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word Article URL: https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096188 Points: 220 # Comments: 177 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Beyond "What to Retrieve": Uncertainty in Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation arXiv:2607.24884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-level code generation relies on heterogeneous evidence whose relevance, compatibility, and completeness are inherently uncertain. Similar-code examples, repository context, and project-specific APIs may provide… 14 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 17d ago Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales. 23 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 17d ago The harness is all you need (mostly) A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool. The post The harness is all you need (mostly) appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 14 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 17d ago GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago Is it worth getting 128GB MacBook Pro? Will it ever be comparable to today’s frontier models for coding? I am a long time iOS app developer. In the last year I have been using Cursor+Claude/others to assist with app development. I am concerned that the current low pricing will disappear eventually. I am pricing out a new laptop with the intention of using local models instead. New… 35 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago CachyLLama: llama.cpp fork with persistent SSD-backed KV caching for local agent workflows If you run local agentic coding harnesses (Aider, Claude Code, etc.), prompt evaluation usually eats up most of your execution time. Every turn re-evaluates thousands of identical prefix tokens_system prompts, tool schemas, and conversation history. CachyLLama is a llama.cpp… 19 r/LocalLLaMA community 20d ago Setup for always on assistant I have a dual 3090 rig that I use as coding assistant and while it works, it draws a lot of electricity. Now I want to add another rig that I can keep on all the time, or maybe a vps if that is suitable. This rig should run an assistant model that should be fairly intelligent… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 21d ago Scaling Closed-Loop Feature Channel Configuration with LLMs arXiv:2607.20516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Promising initial results in closed-loop large-language-model-based channel-configuration search demonstrated that neural-network widths can be optimized directly through executable code generation and accuracy feedback. However,… 35 arXiv — Machine Learning research 21d ago Multi-turn RL with Structural and Performance Aware Rewards for CUDA Kernel Generation arXiv:2607.20908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful technique to enhance the reasoning capacity of LLMs for optimized code generation. However, existing RLVR approaches primarily rely on outcome-based… 7 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Learn2Zinc: Fine-tuning Small Language Models for Text-to-Model Translation in MiniZinc arXiv:2607.20456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models excel at code generation for mainstream programming languages but struggle with rare, domain-specific languages such as MiniZinc, a constraint modeling language for combinatorial problems. We investigate… 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago Demonstrating GenDB: Instance-Optimized and Customized Query Processing Code Generation via LLM Agents arXiv:2607.20630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional query processing engines require continuous development and extensions to support new techniques and user requirements, and in some cases, entirely new systems must be built from scratch. However, these engines are… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 21d ago WaveformQA: Benchmarking LLM Temporal Reasoning on Digital Waveforms arXiv:2607.20638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in code generation and reasoning, yet their ability to perform temporal reasoning over digital waveform data remains largely unexplored. Although reasoning over… 18 GitHub Blog — AI & ML official-blog 22d ago Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it. The post Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? appeared first on The GitHub Blog . 35 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 23d ago H^2SD: Hybrid Hindsight Self-Distillation Abstract Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models on tasks such as mathematical reasoning and code generation. However, most RLVR methods assign a scalar outcome reward to an entire… 7 arXiv — Machine Learning research 23d ago Regime-Aware Physics-Guided Early Warning of Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway Using Thermo-Mechanical Signals arXiv:2607.18860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries poses a major safety risk to electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Current early-warning methods depend mainly on temperature and may therefore miss mechanical precursors that emerge… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 23d ago H$^2$SD: Hybrid Hindsight Self-Distillation arXiv:2607.18955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models on tasks such as mathematical reasoning and code generation. However, most RLVR methods assign a… 24 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 24d ago The Librarian Who Refused to Code: Model-Dependent Identity Enactment in LLM Code Generation arXiv:2607.17420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biographical personas are widely used in system prompts, but their effects on code generation are rarely evaluated under controlled, pre-registered conditions. We tested four prompt conditions (no persona, two engineer personas,… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 24d ago Dependency-Guided Code Generation: Structured Matrix Decomposition and Consistency-Guided Refinement arXiv:2607.16692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing complexity of modern software systems has made automated code generation a fundamental task in software engineering. However, existing approaches often fail to adequately capture the intricate, multi-level… 36 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 24d ago Agent swarms and the new model economics Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982535 Points: 205 # Comments: 91 27 arXiv — Machine Learning research 28d ago Towards Reliable AI-Assisted Analog Design: Template-Constrained LLM Agents for SAR ADC Generation arXiv:2607.14165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capability in software code generation, their application to analog Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is bottlenecked. Owing to limited circuit topology… 33 arXiv — Machine Learning research 28d ago Quantize with Confidence? An Empirical Study of Quantization for Code Generation arXiv:2607.14181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing adoption of local inference frameworks such as Ollama has made it increasingly common for developers to run large code models on laptops and other resource-constrained hardware. In these settings, post-training… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 29d ago Quantum Circuit Vision: Cost-Aware Evaluation of Visual AI Agents for Quantum Code Generation arXiv:2607.10057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can AI agents visually comprehend quantum circuit diagrams and generate verified executable code--and at what cost? We present Quantum Circuit Vision, a cost-aware evaluation framework for multimodal AI agents on quantum circuit… 11 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Declarative by Design, Assistable Only by Convention: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Frameworks for AI-Assistability arXiv:2602.11198v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent frameworks (MAFs) promise to simplify LLM-driven software development, yet no principled metric captures how well AI coding assistants can generate correct, framework-specific code. We introduce… 8 MIT News — AI research 1mo ago Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace systems. 38 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left Article URL: https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910676 Points: 207 # Comments: 86 22 Page 1 of 4 · 186 articles Older →
