Anyone can code with AI. But it might come with a hidden cost.

Apps and platforms allow novice and veteran coders to generate more code more easily, presenting significant quality and security tradeoffs.

Anyone can code using AI. But it might come with a hidden cost.



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Over the past year, AI systems have become so advanced that users without significant coding or computer science experience can now spin up websites or apps simply by giving instructions to a chatbot.

Yet with the rise of AI systems powerful enough to translate the instructions into tomes of code, experts and software engineers are torn over whether the technology will lead to an explosion of bloated, error-riddled software or instead supercharge security efforts by reviewing code faster and more effectively than humans.