Is GitHub's Copilot as Bad as Humans at Introducing Vulnerabilities in Code? · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2204.04741/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTIs GitHub's Copilot as Bad as Humans at Introducing Vulnerabilities in Code? — mentioned by calibashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37774197urn:hackerpapers:mention:2204.04741:37774197Thu, 05 Oct 2023 02:18:43 GMT<p>&gt; The results show that (1) 35.8% of Copilot generated code snippets contain CWEs What percent of non-Copilot generated public GitHub repos contain CWEs? Edit: According to this study, Copilot generates C/C++ code with vulnerabilities, but at a lower rate than your average human coder: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.04741.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2204.04741/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE