{"id":"wildcode","title":"WildCode Revisited: A Comprehensive Empirical Study on the Security of LLM-Generated Code","authors":[{"given":"Kobra","family":"Khanmohammadi"},{"given":"Pooria","family":"Roy"},{"given":"Raphael","family":"Khoury"},{"given":"Abdelwahab","family":"Hamou-Lhadj"},{"given":"Wilfried Patrick","family":"Konan"},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Da Re"},{"given":"Nicholas Rebelo","family":"Melo"}],"first_public":"2025-12-03","date_note":"First arXiv version, originally titled WildCode: An Empirical Analysis of Code Generated by ChatGPT.","date_source":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04259","year":2026,"venue":"Extended arXiv preprint","paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04259","arxiv":"2512.04259","category":"safety","relationship":"uses","dataset_version":"82,843 conversations containing generated code from an 837,989-conversation WildChat release; user-intent analyses use a filtered English subset of 34,478 conversations.","summary":"Examines the security and quality of code generated in real user interactions, together with user intent and follow-up behavior. The extended study also tests security-oriented prompting strategies using prompts derived from the observed logs.","finding":"Security concerns are uncommon in the analyzed user requests, even when generated code has detected problems.","evidence_url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2512.04259v2","evidence_note":"Section 3: extraction and language filtering. Sections 4–6: code, prompting, and user intent.","bibtex_key":"wildcode2025","record_url":"https://yuntiandeng.com/wildchat/papers/wildcode/","relationship_label":"Uses WildChat","citation_title":"WildCode Revisited: A Comprehensive Empirical Study on the Security of LLM-Generated Code","citation_type":"article-journal","bibtex_type":"misc","citation_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04259","citation_year":2025,"citation_note":"2025 arXiv preprint, extended June 2026 revision with updated title and author list.","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2512.04259","code_url":"https://github.com/regularpooria/WildCode"}