How AI Code Assistants Change Application Security

TL;DR

AI code assistants accelerate development velocity, with 46% of code now completed by tools like GitHub Copilot. This speed creates a security challenge: vulnerabilities reach production faster than traditional scanning can catch them. The solution is to adapt security approaches to match development velocity through runtime visibility that monitors application behavior, regardless of whether code was written by humans or AI.

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