AI-powered code completion tools like GitHub Copilot, co-developed by GitHub and OpenAI, likely need no introduction. Developers are rapidly embracing this evolving technology to aid them in their work. Copilot and other Large Language Model (LLM) based coding assistants suggest lines of code and entire functions, saving a lot of time looking up specific formulations or helping scaffold common structures in the code. It is also great for helping a team write documentation.
However, is Copilot secure? As beneficial as it may be, it also comes with significant security and privacy concerns that individual developers and organizations must be aware of. As Frank Herbert put it in “God Emperor of Dune” (the 4th book in the Dune saga):
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