LLM-generated refactoring motivations agree with expert raters about 80% of the time, align with literature motivations in roughly half of cases, and correlate only weakly with software metrics.
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What Were You Thinking? An LLM-Driven Large-Scale Study of Refactoring Motivations in Open-Source Projects
LLM-generated refactoring motivations agree with expert raters about 80% of the time, align with literature motivations in roughly half of cases, and correlate only weakly with software metrics.