Aimee Knight AimeeKnight

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

	Cypress.Commands.add('loginOkta', () => {
	const optionsSessionToken = {
	method: 'POST',
	url: Cypress.env('session_token_url'),
	body: {
	username: Cypress.env('username'),
	password: Cypress.env('password'),
	options: {
	warnBeforePasswordExpired: 'true'
	}