It's like GPT-3 but for code—fun, fast, and full of flaws


CoPilot, built by OpenAI and GitHub, the tool is essentially autocomplete for software development. Hammond Pearce, member of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU Tandon, led a team that studied how Copilot wrote code, and found that a full 40 percent of the time, it produced software that was vulnerable.