Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities at a high rate across nearly every type of application they build. “AI coding agents can produce working software at incredible speed, but security isn’t part of their default thinking,” said James Wickett, CEO of DryRun Security. “In our usage and experience, AI coding agents often missed adding security components … More → The post AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes appeared first on Help Net Security.
Developer jobs are not fine. It’s not about competency, it’s about acceptable levels of risk, and what the people holding the money are going to pay for.
People are not waiting for legal self driving cars when they have a 100% no accident rate. they are waiting for it to make the same level of mistakes as a human being.
You’re not wrong and it sucks. I do put some hope that businesses will learn fairly quickly you simply can’t sell a product that doesn’t work, and relying on LLMs to build your product will always result in issues as that’s simply not what that technology was ever designed to do.
Where I’m worried is that people attach themselves to brands beyond a point of making it part of their personality so as some of these begin enshittifying their products with LLMs, the customers will simply keep paying for a worse product because the company can do no wrong.