Repair Is Nearly Generation: Multilingual Program Repair with LLMs

Understand

Most programmers make mistakes when writing code.

• Some of these mistakes are small and require few edits to the original program -- a class of errors recently termed last mile mistakes.
• These errors break the flow for experienced developers and can stump novice programmers.
• Existing automated repair techniques targeting this class of errors are language-specific and do not easily carry over to new languages.