Re:Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code li...
by johnhenning on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:09PM
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I definitely agree with your point about it being used as a crutch. My criticism was more towards how the authors evaluated AI’s effect on writing secure code. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have student participants, but they should be fully representative across the skill demographics.
To me it’s comparable to a study where you make a general claim about driving ability with lane assist but then 2/3 of the participants only have their learner’s permits.
Re:Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code li...
by Rastonbury on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:31AM
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What is the current feedback mechanism and will they not use existing feedback mechanisms if available? Professionally someone should be there to enforce quality/mentor, but for students or hobbyists, even without AI assistants, they often don't have anyone to say "this is bad, this is best practise" except stackoverflow
Amusingly, without careful curation, I'd predict that buggy code will tend to self-replicate and these tools that indiscriminately slurp public code will enter a death spiral because the novices outnumber the experts. It's only a matter of time before viruses are written to propagate through this garbage stream. http://www.underhanded-c.org/