Authors: A Nazari, S Sabouri, WB Zhu, R Jia, S Chattopadhyay, M Raghothaman Venue: IEEE Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2026
Summary
Merlin, a system bridging LLMs with CodeQL so programmers can ask free-form questions about large codebases. Uses RAG-based iterative query generation, with a self-test technique built on assistive queries that expose flawed candidate queries. In a within-subject user study it increased task accuracy 3.8× on average while cutting completion time 31%.
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Thread: Human-AI Interaction in Knowledge Work — contributed as an educational research prototype. Thread: AI for Education — also part of the education thread.