In SWE-chat, understanding existing code or behaviour was the most common specific user intent at 19.0% of prompts, compared with 13.4% for creating new code.

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"In SWE-chat, understanding existing code or behaviour was the most common specific user intent at 19.0% of prompts, compared with 13.4% for creating new code."

The SWE-chat dataset finds that code understanding is the most common specific prompt intent, ahead of new-code creation.

Source title SWE-chat: Coding Agent Interactions From Real Users in the Wild

Source authors Joachim Baumann; Vishakh Padmakumar; Xiang Li; John Yang; Diyi Yang; Sanmi Koyejo

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high