BISCUIT: Scaffolding LLM-Generated Code with Ephemeral UIs in Computational Notebooks

This paper was accepted at IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2024
Programmers frequently engage with machine learning tutorials in computational notebooks and have been adopting code generation technologies based on large language models (LLMs). However, they encounter difficulties in understanding and working with code produced by LLMs. To mitigate these challenges, we introduce a novel workflow into computational notebooks that augments LLM-based code generation with an additional ephemeral UI step, offering users UI scaffolds as an intermediate stage…