"As you start to use AI tools, please be careful about what you dump into these systems."
Be sure to know the code that AI is giving you; don't just copy and paste. AI might give you a code that may end up breaking your systems or giving you a malware (heard stories of people getting malware because they just copy and paste code without understanding it), so thoroughly check why the code works and understand it.
For sensitive projects, I'd treat these AI assistants like Stack Overflow. Write a minimum reproducible version of what you're trying to sort out, and paste that into the assistant.
But that's a much slower workflow, and it's not as fun to talk about as having the AI generate the actual code you need. I think people can see how public a post on SO is, and wouldn't think of posting proprietary code there. But AI tools *feel* more private than they are to a lot of people.
"As you start to use AI tools, please be careful about what you dump into these systems."
Be sure to know the code that AI is giving you; don't just copy and paste. AI might give you a code that may end up breaking your systems or giving you a malware (heard stories of people getting malware because they just copy and paste code without understanding it), so thoroughly check why the code works and understand it.
For sensitive projects, I'd treat these AI assistants like Stack Overflow. Write a minimum reproducible version of what you're trying to sort out, and paste that into the assistant.
But that's a much slower workflow, and it's not as fun to talk about as having the AI generate the actual code you need. I think people can see how public a post on SO is, and wouldn't think of posting proprietary code there. But AI tools *feel* more private than they are to a lot of people.