The AI programming assistant market has huge potential. These tools can enhance the software development cycle and increase the value businesses generate from their software engineering teams.
At the same time, generative AI creates code vulnerabilities at speed. This guide provides a checklist of characteristics to seek when selecting a suitable security tool for your AI-generated code.
Here's what you'll learn:
- The impact of generative AI flaws
- What you can achieve by shifting your security “left"
- The top characteristics of generative AI coding tools
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