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What Were You Thinking? An LLM-Driven Large-Scale Study of Refactoring Motivations in Open-Source Projects

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Main Authors:	Robredo, Mikel, Esposito, Matteo, Palomba, Fabio, Peñaloza, Rafael, Lenarduzzi, Valentina
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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