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New Salt Security research found 90% of security leaders are actively concerned about risks from AI-generated code. Nearly a third identified insecure coding patterns as the primary risk. Despite widespread anxiety, more than one-third of organizations still rely on manual code reviews before launch, a process that struggles to keep pace with AI-generated code volumes.
The author advises capping pull request size before an AI agent writes any code. A common mistake is letting an agent open a 2,000-line PR across twelve files, which overwhelms reviewers. Reviewer attention is the scarcest team resource, leading to skimmed reviews and shipped defects.
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