GitHub this week announced the release of AI Autofix, which uses artificial intelligence to detect bugs and potential vulnerabilities in codes. The remedy was developed by Sentry, a technology company that develops security and code correction solutions. AI Autofix will serve as a complement to GitHub Copilot, apart from AI tools that help developers.
GitHub has already presented a preview version of AI Autofix in November 2023, accompanying a period of Microsoft, its owner, presenting new resources for Copilot. O Copilot is a high-tech line for services related to your generative AI. AI Autofix is available to GitHub Advance Security customers — or GHAS, a service sold separately for GitHub Enterprise plan customers.
AI Autofix is already in beta, but it can be useful
Just for the release of all GHAS users, AI Autofix is also in beta. Pierre Tempel, product director of GitHub, claims that this tool is able to recognize more than 90% of alerts for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java and Python. Even in beta, AI Autofix can make users' work easier.
To detect a bug or vulnerability, such as displaying an image, AI Autofix will send you a notification. As soon as you open it, you will have a message explaining the cause of the error or security flaw. Then AI Autofix transmits a correction suggestion – the user may or may not have AI.
Assim like me GitHub Copilot is a new tool to save time for developers. If you are not specific about the line and change the code, you can allow AI Autofix to be applied on the suggestion. To avoid understanding it, the GitHub co-pilot suggests the rest of the code conforms or must be written — similar to Gmail, Word and the smartphone keyboard with its functions for automatic completion of words or lyrics.
And of course, the big advantage of AI Autofix is to decrease the likelihood that developers will launch systems with false security. The GitHub now confirms that it will receive an increment of Copilot technology.
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