AI Assistants Show Promise in Predicting and Preventing App Failures But Still Have Limitations

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.

Companies like Dynatrace are using causal and predictive AI to identify root causes of IT system failures and predict future issues.

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.

Studies show AI like GPT-3 can spot some vulnerabilities in code, but still misses many and has trouble scaling to large, complex applications.

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.