Molly Q Feldman

Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs

Although LLMs are increasing the productivity of professional programmers, existing work shows that beginners struggle to prompt LLMs to solve text-to-code tasks (Nguyen et al., 2024; Prather et al., 2024b; Mordechai et al., 2024). Why is this the case? This paper explores two competing hypotheses a…