Source: thenewstack.io
GitHub Focuses on Security, Cloud, DevEx at Universe EventCategory: Security, Data, github, artificial-intelligence
It’s time for the annual GitHub Universe conference where developers using the popular git repository hosting service get to see all of the new features and improvements the company has added to make their work lives easier. Since last year’s event, GitHub has shipped more than 20,000 improvements to its platform for the more than 73 million developers that use it, said Thomas Dohmke, chief product officer at GitHub.
Security is top of mind for GitHub, Dohmke said, noting that the company has been at work to improve the security of code generated by the revolutionary GitHub Copilot AI-powered auto-completion tool that GitHub refers to as an “AI pair programmer.”
If you think about it, what many programmers do is that they go into the internet and search for solutions, and then copy and paste code and, and that copy and paste the code — similar to the Copilot code — may or may not be fully secure,” he said.
For some languages, particularly Python, the company has seen that about 30% of newly written code is being suggested by Copilot and that number could get past 50% in the next couple of years, he noted.
Security is top of mind for GitHub, Dohmke said, noting that the company has been at work to improve the security of code generated by the revolutionary GitHub Copilot AI-powered auto-completion tool that GitHub refers to as an “AI pair programmer.”
If you think about it, what many programmers do is that they go into the internet and search for solutions, and then copy and paste code and, and that copy and paste the code — similar to the Copilot code — may or may not be fully secure,” he said.
For some languages, particularly Python, the company has seen that about 30% of newly written code is being suggested by Copilot and that number could get past 50% in the next couple of years, he noted.
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