Sponsor Editorial

Most security conversations cover AI-accelerated exploitation, but miss the second vector: the same AI is being used by developers to build the estate. The post cites Stack Overflow's 2025 survey (84% of developers use or plan to use AI coding tools) and Gartner's 2028 projection (75% of enterprise engineers), alongside the productivity case — 3.6 hours saved per week, 48–58% faster time-to-PR, 3–4x higher commit rates. Then the other side of the ledger: Cloud Security Alliance research finds AI-assisted developers introduce security findings at 10x the rate of peers, and Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report found 45% of AI-generated code samples introduced OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities — exceeding 70% for Java specifically, with the Spring 2026 update showing newer, larger models are no safer. The conclusion frames this as a governance gap, not developer carelessness, and positions Azul's free JVM vulnerability risk assessment as the visibility baseline needed to manage both vectors.