Researchers from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo.
I’m sure you’d find the same thing of developers who blindly cut & paste from Stack Overflow.
The root issue is the same, people who don’t understand the code they got from someone else write less secure code. Doesn’t matter if it was an AI or Stack Overflow poster.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/
@carnage4life Alternatively, and I think this is the real problem with AI, it is mirroring its training data. Most code is crap, so you get a crap code generator.
Similar to Microsoft's Tay chatbot becoming a Nazi misogynist from Internet training data.
You may be able to create tools that work as well as the bottom 50%of the work force at best.
@rrb @carnage4life I think these are both true. AI code is crap because most code is crap, but also a lot of code is crap because people were relying on other people and not actually learning to code themselves
(I'm not someone who never asks for help or is against it ftr, I mean what OP said about using other people's code without inspecting it)