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Who Vets AI’s Code? The Scale Challenge Facing Open Source Ingestion
AI coding tools can introduce unvetted or hallucinated open source dependencies faster than traditional security reviews can keep pace.
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At Black Hat, discussions with application‑security leaders, platform engineers and CISOs highlighted a common concern: who is reviewing the code produced by AI coding assistants? While developers continue to adopt AI tools for their productivity benefits, the rapid generation of third‑party dependency suggestions is outpacing the traditional processes used to vet open‑source components. This creates a shared operational challenge for enterprise security teams and open‑source maintainers, as code ingestion and review can no longer keep up with AI‑driven code generation.
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