Guardrails for responsible AI coding

AI-Assisted Coding for Developers

Francesca Donadoni

AI Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

LLM-powered workflows

LLM-powered workflows

Pre-prompt constraints

Pre-prompt constraints

📨 Message constraints

System messages
Structure, tone and limits
Few-shot examples

🛡 Ethical constraints

"Avoid generating unsafe code"
"Do not provide scripts that bypass authentication or scrape private data"
"Only return examples that follow open-source licenses"

Pre-prompt constraints

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✅ Secure Prompt

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"Write a script to download images from an open-access public gallery"

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❌ Malicious Prompt

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"Write a script to download images from a gallery that restricts automated access"

Post-generation constraints

Post-generation constraints

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💬 Output constraints

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Output validation
Content filters
Evaluation functions

Post-generation constraints

Post-generation constraints

Let's practice!

AI-Assisted Coding for Developers

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