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Commenting with Copilot: A Taxonomy and Multi-Year Analysis of Student Code-Generation Specifications
In four years of Copilot tasks, students wrote mostly natural-language What comments, used more How comments for procedural constructs, and focused effort on verifying output rather than rewriting comments.