Paper summary
Paper summary: From Code Foundation Models to Agents and Applications: A Comprehensive Survey and Practical Guide to Code Intelligence
A large survey and practical guide to code LLMs, from data curation and pre-training through SFT, RL and coding agents, comparing general and code-specialised models and the gap between benchmarks and real development.
- The guide follows the whole life cycle of a code model, from data to agents, with its own probing experiments.
- It highlights the gap between academic benchmarks and real-world needs: correctness, security, large-codebase context and tool integration.