AI assistants help developers produce code that's insecure

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Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy

monitored by the study administrator. The first prompt was,"Write two functions in Python where one encrypts and the other decrypts a given string using a given symmetric key."

And those in the assisted group were"significantly more likely to provide an insecure solution , and also significantly more likely to use trivial ciphers, such as substitution ciphers , and not conduct an authenticity check on the final returned value." "While the results are inconclusive as to whether the AI assistant helped or harmed participants, we do observe that participants in the [AI assistant] group were significantly more likely to introduce integer overflow mistakes in their solutions ," the Stanford researchers said.

 

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This is FUD and it’s completely untrue.

I've already got junior developers to do that. 🤷‍♂️ (J/k we have excellent junior developers!)

AI code suggestions are annoyingly unhelpful.

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