Too Hot To Handle: The Effects of Temperature on AI-Generated Code Used to Cheat in Programming Assignments
Abstract
In light of the rapid evolution of generative artificial intelligence, automatic code generation constitutes a novel cheating strategy for university programming courses. Varying the temperature parameter of LLMs, we generate nearly 10,000 programs for four programming tasks and present a comprehensive evaluation of their suitability for submission to mandatory assignments.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Teaching and Learning Programming
Academic integrity and plagiarism
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering
- Publisher
- ACM
- Pages
- 461–462
- Publication date
- 12 April 2026
- Language
- EN