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A Day with Developer Assist: Faster Fixes, Cleaner Commits
Security tools promise to help developers. In practice, many of them just relocate the burden. The vulnerability still needs to be understood, researched, and fixed, only now the developer is doing it across two or three tools instead of one, hours or days after they wrote the code in question. The real test of an […]
Apr 29, 2026 · 3 minAll articles by Rebecca Spiegel
Showing 1–3Agentic AI for Defense: How Checkmarx Turns Security into a Coding Partner
“AI-powered” has become the default label for every security tool on the market. But there’s a meaningful difference between a tool that uses AI to generate alerts after the fact and one that actively participates in development, preventing vulnerabilities as code is written. That difference is what separates reactive AI from agentic AI. And it […]
When AI Gets It Wrong: The Insecure Defaults Lurking in Your Code
The arrival of generative AI in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is arguably the biggest shift in coding in decades. For development teams, tools like GitHub, Copilot, and other AI assistants act as a massive force multiplier, automating boilerplate, suggesting complex logic, and significantly accelerating time-to-commit. But as organizations rush to equip their teams, a […]