A new paper titled "STALL+: Boosting LLM-based Repository-level Code Completion with Static Analysis" shows the benefits of integrating static analysis with LLMs. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10018)
Authors evaluate 4 key questions:
- How does each static analysis integration strategy perform in LLM-based repository-level code completion? > They found that integrating static analysis in the prompting phase (especially with file-level dependencies) can achieve the substantially larger improvements than other phases.
- How do different combinations of integration strategies affect LLM-based repository-level code completion? > Languages that are easier to analyze like Java show more improvements compared to dynamic languages like Python.
- How do static analysis integration strategies perform when compared or combined with RAG in LLM-based repository-level code completion? > Static analysis and RAG are complementary and boost the overall accuracy.
- What are the online costs of different integration strategies in LLM-based repository-level code completion? > Combining prompting-phase static analysis and RAG is the best option for cost-effectiveness.
In my @owasp App Sec keynote last year, I had described how one can do static analysis augmented generation (SaAG) to boost the accuracy of LLM based patches for vulnerability remediation. (you can see the talk here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw4-ZnUNVLs)
The new Claude Sonnet 3.5 model from Anthropic AI has been getting good reviews on since last night. It is quite good at coding related tasks. We tried it on the Static Analysis Eval benchmark (patched-codes/static-analysis-eval) which measures the ability of a LLM to fix vulnerabilities. The model scores 59.21% which is good but not better than other frontier models (like GPT-4, Gemini-1.5 and LLama-3).