Technical Perspective: Fusing Large Language Models with Completion Engines for Automated Program Repair (opens in new tab)

The last decade has seen the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in software engineering (SE), with the (partial) automation of complex tasks such as code writing, summarization, and repair. The successful application of AI in SE is mostly due to three factors: first, the unprecedented amount of software-related data that can be found in open source projects hosted on platforms such as GitHub which, at the time of writing, counts more than 500 million public repositories; second, the advance...