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Aug 2026
An Exploratory Study on Code Smells Detection and Refactoring using LLMs
This paper focuses on four common smells and considers five prompts of diverse complexity, asking the model for detecting and removing the identified code smells, and suggests that general-purpose LLMs cannot be reliably used for that.
Giorgia Paisi, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Bartosz Walter
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