Papers by Molly Q Feldman
Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing work shows that beginners struggle to prompt LLMs to solve text-to-code tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a causal intervention experiment on technical vocabulary to test whether students lack the technical vocabulary needed to write good prompts and to analyze graphs that abstract how students edit prompts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves student-LLM communication by predicting student failures and predicting the information content of prompts. |