Ai-Ethics on No Semicolonshttps://nosemicolons.com/tags/ai-ethics/Recent content in Ai-Ethics on No SemicolonsHugoen-usSat, 22 Aug 2026 08:18:54 +0000The AI Code Generation Bias Report: How Model Training Data Is Secretly Sabotaging Women and Minority Developershttps://nosemicolons.com/posts/ai-code-generation-bias-report/Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:18:54 +0000https://nosemicolons.com/posts/ai-code-generation-bias-report/<p>Ever notice how AI coding assistants seem to &ldquo;get&rdquo; some developers better than others? I stumbled into this rabbit hole last month when a colleague mentioned that GitHub Copilot kept suggesting variable names like <code>userName</code> and <code>adminUser</code> for her user management system, while consistently ignoring her more inclusive naming conventions like <code>personName</code> or <code>accountHolder</code>.</p> <p>That conversation led me down a fascinating and somewhat troubling path of discovery about how the training data behind our favorite AI coding tools might be working against the very developers we need most in tech.</p>