AI coding tools were supposed to make software development faster and easier. They did, but maybe a little too well. People are writing code faster than ever before, and this has created a whole new set of problems for companies.
According to The New York Times, one financial services company started using Cursor, an AI coding tool, and went from producing 25,000 to 250,000 lines of code per month. That sounds like a win, but it created a backlog of one million lines of unreviewed code.
ThisIsEngineering / Pexels“The sheer amount of code being delivered, and the increase in vulnerabilities, is something they can’t keep up with,” said Joni Klippert, CEO of StackHawk, a security startup working with the firm.
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