AI Assistants Show Promise in Predicting and Preventing App Failures But Still Have Limitations
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Generative AI like GitHub Copilot is being combined with DevOps tools to predict and prevent application failures. However, it's too soon to fully trust these systems to automatically fix code.
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Companies like Dynatrace are using causal and predictive AI to identify root causes of IT system failures and predict future issues.
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Dynatrace has introduced a generative AI assistant called Davis Copilot that can suggest fixes to code vulnerabilities based on insights from causal/predictive AI. But hallucinations remain an issue.
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Studies show AI like GPT-3 can spot some vulnerabilities in code, but still misses many and has trouble scaling to large, complex applications.
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Companies aim to combine generative AI more closely with proven tools like causal/predictive AI to amplify the abilities of language models in identifying and fixing code issues.
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