InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code previews ML-based language detection

Visual Studio Code 1.59, aka the July 2021 edition, also features a preview of a debug Disassembly view. Visual Studio Code 1.59, the latest version of the popular code editor from Microsoft, has a ...
Nature

SmellyCode++: Multi-Label Dataset for Code Smell Detection

Code smells are not software defects but rather indicators of suboptimal design choices that can adversely impact software quality attributes, such as maintainability, over time 1,2. These smells can ...
Tech Times

GitHub Copilot CLI Adds Pre-Commit Security Scanner: LLM Inference at the Detection Layer

GitHub Copilot security scanning arrives in the terminal with /security-review, an experimental pre-commit slash command that ...
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AI code security risk: The need for a smarter layer between detection and remediation

AI has dramatically increased the speed and volume of software development. In a recent Google survey, 90% of developers reported using AI tools to assist them in their work, with 71% using it to ...
Nature

A study of dealing class imbalance problem with machine learning methods for code smell severity detection using PCA-based feature selection technique

Detecting code smells may be highly helpful for reducing maintenance costs and raising source code quality. Code smells facilitate developers or researchers to understand several types of design flaws ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Uses ML to Detect Programming Language, Set Mode

Visual Studio Code is now using machine learning to detect what programming language is being used in a pasted-in file and then automatically set the appropriate mode. This experimental feature, ...
InfoWorld

LLMs and the rise of the AI code generators

Large language models like GPT-4 and tools like GitHub Copilot can make good programmers more efficient and bad programmers more dangerous. Are you ready to dive in? When I wrote about GitHub Copilot ...