TL;DR AI editors hardcode API keys, tokens, and JWT secrets straight into source because...
TL;DR
AI editors hardcode API keys, tokens, and JWT secrets straight into source because their training data is full of tutorials that do exactly that.
A hardcoded secret in a public repo is compromised the moment it is pushed, not when someone finds it.
Scan for secrets before every commit and move them to environment variables. It takes 30 seconds.
I asked Cursor to wire up Stripe billing for a side project last week. It gave me working code in about ten seconds. It also gave me this:
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Someone hits an error, copies the whole stack trace into a chat window, and asks the model to "just...
Every major AI coding tool sends your code to an external server. Every single one. Cursor uploads...
