AI assistants more likely to produce buggy, insecure code

But devs think they've written secure outputs

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We're still in the early days of AI assistants
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We're still in the early days of AI assistants

A new Stanford University study has found that developers who use AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot produce code that is less secure than those who code from scratch.

The research also found that individuals using an AI coding assistant are more likely to believe they have written secure code than those who don't use such tools. Generating software code has r...

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