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ARXIV:2603.17150 · AI IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.17150AI IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
A framework for translating user intent into formal specifications to enhance the reliability of AI-generated code.
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A framework for translating user intent into formal specifications to enhance the reliability of AI-generated code. This article argues that \textbf{intent formalization} -- the translation of informal user intent into a set of checkable…
Agentic AI systems can now generate code with remarkable fluency, but a fundamental question remains: \emph{does the generated code actually do what the user intended?} The gap between informal natural language requirements and precise…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. We survey early research that demonstrates the \emph{potential} of this approach: interactive test-driven formalization that improves program correctness, AI-generated postconditions that catch real-world bugs…
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.17150A framework for translating user intent into formal specifications to enhance the reliability of AI-generated code.
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Agentic AI systems can now generate code with remarkable fluency, but a fundamental question remains: \emph{does the generated code actually do what the user intended?} The gap between informal natural language requirements and precise program behavior -- the \emph{intent gap} -- has always plagued software engineering, but AI-generated code amplifies it to an unprecedented scale. This article argues that \textbf{intent formalization} -- the translation of informal user intent into a set of checkable formal specifications -- is the key challenge that will determine whether AI makes software more reliable or merely more abundant. Intent formalization offers a tradeoff spectrum suitable to the reliability needs of different contexts: from lightweight tests that disambiguate likely misinterpretations, through full functional specifications for formal verification, to domain-specific languages from which correct code is synthesized automatically. The central bottleneck is \emph{validating specifications}: since there is no oracle for specification correctness other than the user, we need semi-automated metrics that can assess specification quality with or without code, through lightweight user interaction and proxy artifacts such as tests. We survey early research that demonstrates the \emph{potential} of this approach: interactive test-driven formalization that improves program correctness, AI-generated postconditions that catch real-world bugs missed by prior methods, and end-to-end verified pipelines that produce provably correct code from informal specifications. We outline the open research challenges -- scaling beyond benchmarks, achieving compositionality over changes, metrics for validating specifications, handling rich logics, designing human-AI specification interactions -- that define a research agenda spanning AI, programming languages, formal methods, and human-computer interaction.
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A framework for translating user intent into formal specifications to enhance the reliability of AI-generated code. This article argues that \textbf{intent formalization} -- the translation of informal user intent into a set of checkable formal specifications -- is the key chall...
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Agentic AI systems can now generate code with remarkable fluency, but a fundamental question remains: \emph{does the generated code actually do what the user intended?} The gap between informal natural language requirements and precise program behavior -- the \emph{intent gap} -...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. We survey early research that demonstrates the \emph{potential} of this approach: interactive test-driven formalization that improves program correctness, AI-generated postconditions that catch real-world...
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AI in Software Engineering moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 4.0/10.
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A framework for translating user intent into formal specifications to enhance the reliability of AI-generated code. This article argues that \textbf{intent formalization} -- the translation of informal user intent into a set of checkable formal specifications -- is the key challenge that will determine whether AI makes software more reliable or merely more abundant.
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Agentic AI systems can now generate code with remarkable fluency, but a fundamental question remains: \emph{does the generated code actually do what the user intended?} The gap between informal natural language requirements and precise program behavior -- the \emph{intent gap} -- has always plagued software engineering, but AI-generated code amplifies it to an unprecedented scale. This article argues that \textbf{intent formalization} -- the translation of informal user intent into a set of checkable formal specifications -- is the key challenge that will determine whether AI makes software more reliable or merely more abundant.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. We survey early research that demonstrates the \emph{potential} of this approach: interactive test-driven formalization that improves program correctness, AI-generated postconditions that catch real-world bugs missed by prior methods, and end-to-end verified pipelines that produce provably correct code from informal specifications.
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AI in Software Engineering moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 4.0/10.
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