LLM Code Smells: A Taxonomy and Detection Approach

arXiv:2605.22976 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-05-21

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• LLM Integration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes

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