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Prompt engineering applied to code generation: a preliminary systematic review

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This Systematic Literature Review examines prompt engineering in automatic code generation using large language models (LLMs) and shows that prompt engineering has been established as a key discipline for optimizing interaction with LLMs and improve the accuracy, robustness, and applicability of the generated code.

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