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New benchmark CAPA evaluates AI coding assistants' cross-session ambiguity adaptation

Researchers have introduced CAPA, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well AI coding assistants can adapt to recurring personalized ambiguities across different sessions. Unlike existing methods that address ambiguities in isolation, CAPA focuses on using a user's past resolved sessions to inform and resolve similar ambiguities in new sessions, thereby reducing the need for repeated clarifications. The benchmark includes 600 coding sessions and evaluates 12 recent large language models on metrics such as executable success and first-turn success. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could lead to more intuitive and efficient AI coding assistants that better understand user intent over time.

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New benchmark CAPA evaluates AI coding assistants' cross-session ambiguity adaptation

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zijian Xu, Wenshuo Zhang, Zisen Qin, Rui Sheng, Yushi Sun, Huamin Qu, Chuhan Shi ·

    Fewer Clarifications, Better Code: Benchmarking Cross-Session Personalized Ambiguity Adaptation in Coding Assistants

    arXiv:2607.26611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-assisted coding increasingly translates informal user intent into executable software, yet coding requests often contain ambiguities that recur in user-specific ways across tasks and sessions. Existing disambiguation methods typi…