"The Ox team looked at 300 open-source projects, 50 of which were in whole or part AI generated and evaluated the architectural and security quality of the code. The identified anti-patterns occurred at high frequency in the vast majority of the AI generated code. The most frequent issues identified were: Comments Everywhere: Comments meant to assist the AI cause increased cognitive load to humans reviewing the code Critical (90-100%) By-the-Book Fixation: Code created by the AI follows textbook patterns rather than being tailored for the current application Avoidance of Refactors: Humans manage code by constantly improving its structure. An AI is solely concerned about implementing the prompt, resulting in code that is difficult to understand. Over-Specification: AI implements code for extreme edge cases that are unlikely to occur in practice."
"The Ox team argues for a new developer role to manage this risk. They recommend positioningAI as implementation support, freeing humans to focus on product management, architectural decisions, and strategic oversight. The report states that while AI excels at implementation, human creativity remains irreplaceable for breakthrough innovation. On the security front, the team argues that manual code review is obsolete as a primary defense. Instead, organizations must build security requirements directly"
Ox Security examined 300 open-source projects, 50 of which were wholly or partly AI-generated, and evaluated architectural and security quality. The analysis found ten recurring architecture and security anti-patterns appearing at high frequency in AI-generated code. Common issues include excessive instructive comments that increase human cognitive load, adherence to textbook patterns instead of tailoring solutions, avoidance of refactors leading to hard-to-understand structure, over-specification for unlikely edge cases, and repeated injection of previously seen bugs. The team recommends a dedicated developer role to manage AI-produced code and positions AI as implementation support while humans retain product, architecture, and security oversight.
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