TL;DR
AI editors keep hardcoding API keys and secrets directly into source files
That single pattern is an automatic fail on SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA reviews
Solo founders and small teams now get enterprise security questionnaires before they've ever hired a security person, and this is the first thing reviewers grep for
A solo founder I've been advising pinged me two weeks before his first SOC 2 readiness review. He'd built his entire product in Cursor over four months, shipping fast, iterating with customers, doing exactly what you're supposed to do at that stage. He asked me to sanity-check the codebase before the auditor did.
