In the pilot workshop, the LLM unreliably produced fill-in-the-blank snippets, often returning complete code solutions instead¶
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q2 i? Code snippets generated during the pilot did not reliably use the fill-in-the-blank approach; one participant saw 24 of their prompts incorrectly return full code snippets, while two of seven never encountered the problem. → Tseng 2026
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Tseng 2026¶
Tseng, T., Seoror, L.H., Adda, J., Factor, M., Darabi, R., Matschke, K.R., Fu, T., Lin, A., Maram, A., Sinha, A. (2026). Flowcode: An AI-Powered Programming Environment for Scaffolding Iteration in Creative Computing Education. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06721 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.06721
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Observation from the pilot workshop (n=7) interaction logs and screen recordings. The article reports the issue varied among participants and that "once the LLM incorrectly generated complete code for a specific user, it continued to do so in most subsequent responses throughout the workshop."
"This behavior varied among partici- pants, with two of the seven participants never encountering the problem, whereas one participant saw 24 of their prompts incor- rectly return full code snippets."
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In the pilot workshop, the LLM unreliably produced fill-in-the-blank snippets, often returning complete code solutions instead |
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In the pilot workshop, the LLM unreliably produced fill-in-the-blank snippets, often returning complete code solutions instead |
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