Are AI coding assistants making developers blind to security? A community reckoning
ComparisonNew9425 · reddit · 2026-08-19
After spending a night refactoring legacy code with an AI assistant, the author raises a concern: we have zero visibility into vulnerabilities it might be hallucinating into production — trading long-term security for short-term speed. His biggest fear is that new devs will ignore security best practices because the tool 'handles' boilerplate, leaving nobody who understands the risks of shipped code. He asks the community: data leakage, hallucinated vulnerabilities, or something else?
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