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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code

Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code 2026-06-15 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec At most U.S. technology companies, machines now write the bulk of the code that ships each week. The engineer’s job has shifted toward reviewing what the AI produces, and that review gives the code high marks. Leaders rate AI-generated […]

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The security questions around Chinese AI coding models in U.S. software

The security questions around Chinese AI coding models in U.S. software 2026-06-09 at 08:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Software developers across the United States are using AI models built in China to write, debug, and review code, drawn by prices below those of American alternatives. These models carry risks for the security of American software, according

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GitHub Copilot app launches as desktop home for AI coding agents

GitHub Copilot app launches as desktop home for AI coding agents 2026-06-08 at 07:15 By Sinisa Markovic GitHub introduced the Copilot app, a desktop application built for working with AI coding agents, at Microsoft Build 2026. The release expands GitHub’s Copilot product line beyond editor integrations and command-line tools into a dedicated workspace for directing

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New Edamame Platform Aims to Catch AI Coding Agents Going Off the Rails

New Edamame Platform Aims to Catch AI Coding Agents Going Off the Rails 2026-05-28 at 17:54 By Kevin Townsend France-based startup Edamame says its runtime verification platform uses host telemetry and AI analysis to detect coding-agent “intent drift,” secret theft and supply-chain attacks in real time. The post New Edamame Platform Aims to Catch AI

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Silent Drift: How LLMs Are Quietly Breaking Organizational Access Control

Silent Drift: How LLMs Are Quietly Breaking Organizational Access Control 2026-03-30 at 17:30 By Kevin Townsend LLMs can write complex Rego and Cedar code in seconds, but a single missing condition or hallucinated attribute can quietly dismantle your organization’s least-privilege security model. The post Silent Drift: How LLMs Are Quietly Breaking Organizational Access Control appeared

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AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure

AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure 2026-03-27 at 20:33 By Anamarija Pogorelec Code keeps moving through pipelines, and credentials continue to surface alongside it. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 puts the count at 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets in public GitHub commits in 2025, extending a multi-year rise

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GitHub enables multi-agent AI coding inside repository workflows

GitHub enables multi-agent AI coding inside repository workflows 2026-02-05 at 13:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitHub has expanded Agents HQ, enabling AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, and OpenAI Codex to execute development tasks directly within GitHub and developer editors while preserving repository context, session history, and review workflows. Copilot Pro+ and

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OpenAI releases Codex macOS app for agent-based software development

OpenAI releases Codex macOS app for agent-based software development 2026-02-03 at 13:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI has launched the new Codex app for macOS, a dedicated workspace for managing multiple AI coding agents in parallel. The app is designed to help developers reduce repetitive work and focus on higher-level engineering tasks. Codex can write features,

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Unbounded AI use can break your systems

Unbounded AI use can break your systems 2026-01-22 at 08:01 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, James Wickett, CEO of DryRun Security, explains cyber risks many teams underestimate as they add AI to products. He focuses on how fast LLM features are pushed into live applications without limits or guardrails. The

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AI code looks fine until the review starts

AI code looks fine until the review starts 2025-12-23 at 08:23 By Anamarija Pogorelec Software teams have spent the past year sorting through a rising volume of pull requests generated with help from AI coding tools. New research puts numbers behind what many reviewers have been seeing during work. The research comes from CodeRabbit and

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BlueCodeAgent helps developers secure AI-generated code

BlueCodeAgent helps developers secure AI-generated code 2025-11-20 at 08:05 By Sinisa Markovic When AI models generate code, they deliver power and risk at the same time for security teams. That tension is at the heart of the new tool called BlueCodeAgent, designed to help developers and security engineers defend against code-generation threats. Why code generation

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AI writes code like a junior dev, and security is feeling it

AI writes code like a junior dev, and security is feeling it 2025-10-27 at 08:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec The industry is entering a phase where code is being deployed faster than it can be secured, according to OX Security. Findings from the Army of Juniors: The AI Code Security Crisis report show that AI-generated code

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When AI writes code, humans clean up the mess

When AI writes code, humans clean up the mess 2025-10-24 at 10:42 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI coding tools are reshaping how software is written, tested, and secured. They promise speed, but that speed comes with a price. A new report from Aikido Security shows that most organizations now use AI to write production code, and

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Behind the scenes of cURL with its founder: Releases, updates, and security

Behind the scenes of cURL with its founder: Releases, updates, and security 2025-09-18 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Daniel Stenberg, lead developer od cURL, discusses how the widely used tool remains secure across billions of devices, from cloud services to IoT. He shares insights into cURL’s decades-long journey of

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Why AI code assistants need a security reality check

Why AI code assistants need a security reality check 2025-06-19 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Silviu Asandei, Security Specialist and Security Governance at Sonar, discusses how AI code assistants are transforming development workflows and impacting security. He explains how these tools can boost productivity but may also propagate vulnerabilities

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Unpacking the security complexity of no-code development platforms

Unpacking the security complexity of no-code development platforms 2025-06-13 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Amichai Shulman, CTO at Nokod Security, discusses how the abstraction layer in no-code environments complicates security by obscuring data flow, identity propagation, and control logic. Shulman also addresses why vulnerabilities in no-code applications go far

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Why privacy in blockchain must start with open source

Why privacy in blockchain must start with open source 2025-05-30 at 09:02 By Help Net Security Traditionally, trust came from centralized institutions. Banks, payment networks, and clearinghouses are closed systems. Users cannot see the inner workings, but they rely on external audits, government regulation, and long histories of compliance to feel secure. It’s a model

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Year of the Twin Dragons: Developers Must Slay the Complexity and Security Issues of AI Coding Tools

Year of the Twin Dragons: Developers Must Slay the Complexity and Security Issues of AI Coding Tools 2025-05-01 at 16:01 By Mike Lennon The advantages AI tools deliver in speed and efficiency are impossible for developers to resist. But the complexity and risk created by AI-generated code can’t be ignored. The post Year of the

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Two things you need in place to successfully adopt AI

Two things you need in place to successfully adopt AI 2025-03-31 at 08:32 By Help Net Security Organizations should not shy away from taking advantage of AI tools, but they need to find the right balance between maximizing efficiency and mitigating organizational risk. They need to put in place: 1. A seamless AI security policy

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Open source worldwide: Critical maintenance gaps exposed

Open source worldwide: Critical maintenance gaps exposed 2025-01-07 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Lineaje recently released a report identifying the US and Russia as the leading generators of open-source projects, with both countries also having the highest numbers of anonymous open-source contributions. In this Help Net Security video, Nick Mistry, SVP and CISO of

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