GitHub Copilot can replicate existing security issues in code, Snyk said in a blog post published February 22. “This means that existing security debt in a project can make insecure developers using Copilot even less secure,” the company said. However, GitHub Copilot is less likely to suggest insecure code in projects without security issues, as it has a less insecure code context to draw from.
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