Building Confidence and Trust in AI-Generated Code

The rise of generative AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini Code Assist, Amazon Q Developer, and OpenAI ChatGPT has significantly boosted developer productivity but also introduced challenges related to bugs, vulnerabilities, and suboptimal code. Traditionally, in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), code authorship is clearly defined, ensuring trust and accountability. However, AI-generated code disrupts this established clarity of ownership and introduces a code accountability challenge. To tackle this issue, Sonar has introduced AI Code Assurance, which provides developers with the confidence and trust they need to embrace AI in their coding practices by implementing comprehensive code analysis and ensuring that AI-generated code passes a strict quality gate. The AI Code Assurance workflow encourages developers to take full ownership of code, whether human-written or AI-generated, through thorough code reviews and validation processes.