When Who You Are Can Change the Code You Get: A Study of Persona-Induced Bias in LLM Code Generation

arXiv:2609.22102 · cs.SE, cs.CL, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-08-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.CL, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-08-12

Updated: 2026-08-12

Comments: Under review at Empirical Software Engineering 43 pages, 11 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Persona Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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