In less than a year, AI-assisted coding went from novelty to habit.
What used to be a specialized workflow for experienced engineers is now accessible to almost anyone with an idea, a prompt, and a few minutes.
In 2025, that shift became impossible to ignore. Software creation sped up, public GitHub activity surged, and a new generation of services, agents, integrations, and configuration patterns entered the stack all at once. That speed came with a cost.
According to our latest "State of Secrets Sprawl" report, 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets were added to public GitHub commits in 2025 alone, a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump we've recorded.
The year software changed forever
