AI is creating code faster - but this also means more potential security issues

• “AI is fixing the typos but creating the timebombs”, Apiiro says
• 10x more security findings were highlighted in June 2025 vs. December 2024
• AI is 4x quicker than humans, and can also reduce syntax errors and logic bugs

New research has claimed that despite its promised advances in helping code quicker and more effectively, the use of AI tools in coding may be throwing up security issues across the board.

Apiiro has quantified the vulnerabilities that companies could be exposing themselves to by using AI-generated code, finding AI-assisted developers were able to write 3-4x more code than their peers, however their code introduced 10x more security issues.

The vulnerabilities varied in severity, and while they weren’t always exploitable bugs, code quality still saw a noticeable drop.