Persistent Human Feedback, LLMs, and Static Analyzers for Secure Code Generation and Vulnerability Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05868v1
• Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:46:33 GMT
• Title: Persistent Human Feedback, LLMs, and Static Analyzers for Secure Code Generation and Vulnerability Detection
• Abstract summary: Existing literature heavily relies on static analysis tools to evaluate LLMs for secure code generation and vulnerability detection.<n>While 61% of the samples were genuinely secure, only 65% of SemQL's and 61% of CodeQL's reports correctly matched the ground truth.<n>Building on this insight, we propose a conceptual framework that persistently stores human feedback in a dynamic retrievalaugmented generation pipeline.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Existing literature heavily relies on static analysis tools to evaluate LLMs for secure code generation and vulnerability detection. We reviewed 1,080 LLM-generated code samples, built a human-validated ground-truth, and compared the outputs of two widely used static security tools, CodeQL and Semgrep, against this corpus. While 61% of the samples were genuinely secure, Semgrep and CodeQL classified 60% and 80% as secure, respectively. Despite the apparent agreement in aggregate statistics, per-sample analysis reveals substantial discrepancies: only 65% of Semgrep's and 61% of CodeQL's reports correctly matched the ground truth. These results question the reliability of static analysis tools as sole evaluators of code security and underscore the need for expert feedback. Building on this insight, we propose a conceptual framework that persistently stores human feedback in a dynamic retrieval-augmented generation pipeline, enabling LLMs to reuse past feedback for secure code generation and vulnerability detection.

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