SMRTR ProgrammingJul 28, 2026The Next Web

AI writes half our code now. It still fails security tests 44% of the time.

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Veracode's 2026 GenAI Code Security Report reveals that AI models now write compilable code nearly 100% of the time, but still fail security checks 44% of the time — a rate unchanged over a year of testing. With AI now authoring roughly half of all committed code, that static failure rate represents a massively growing attack surface. Reasoning models score slightly better, but even the top model, GPT-5.5, fails one in three security tasks.

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