AI coding tools have done something nobody planned for: they've made the security review cycle the bottleneck. Not CI. Not deployment. Security.

Snyk's latest research into AI agent security puts hard data behind what a lot of engineering teams are quietly feeling — velocity went up, security coverage didn't. The gap between "code is written" and "code is safe to ship" has never been wider.

"AI is shipping code faster than security was built to handle."

That's not a warning about some future state. It's a description of now.

What actually changed