genAI is critical to the future of app development – Computerworld

“…I haven’t yet seen us take and hand genAI over to [the business side] and say, ‘Here’s a code generation engine and a prompt for someone that’s not trained as a software engineer to do that.’” Because, frankly, they would have trouble building software that meets your enterprise standards and that can follow the different architecture patterns and models that are important to your enterprise to fit into the business. Will those models get better and those tools get better? One hundred percent, completely. I see that future out there…, where the no-code, low-code kind of toolset with what we’re seeing happen with generative AI and software engineering.”

What guardrails have you put in place to ensure AI doesn’t cause security, privacy or copyright infringement problems? “We definitely have checks in our software check-in process where the right attributions and other things are taking place and we provide provenance for code that’s actually been written. So we can track and maintain where it comes from. And of course, we maintain all the security aspects of it. And like I said, we don’t really allow unfiltered codes to be generated. We can allow [genAI] to be inspirational and to help us accelerate things, but in terms of just putting it directly into production systems or otherwise, that’s definitely not something that we’re fully engaged in at this point.

“We’re testing in that, and I think we’ll eventually get there. I think it’s going to take some time for us to feel very comfortable about that, because you never know, for example, what open source software licenses you’re inheriting and what this is actually built on. So, you have to be very careful about it. So, until we get more private small language models, if you will, which we’re actually building these from now, I think that people are going to exercise a lot of caution — especially at the code development phase.