Sketch Then Generate: Providing Incremental User Feedback And Guiding LLM Code Generation Through Language-oriented Code Sketches

Abstract

Crafting effective prompts for code generation or editing with Large Language Models (LLMs) is not an easy task. Particularly, the absence of immediate, stable feedback during prompt crafting hinders effective interaction, as users are left to mentally imagine possible outcomes until the code is generated. In response, we introduce Language-Oriented Code Sketching, an interactive approach that pro