7 Security Checks Before Shipping an AI-Built Next.js + Supabase App

AI coding assistants can dramatically reduce the time between an idea and a working application. Unfortunately, they do not reduce the application’s attack surface.

Generated code often looks reasonable, compiles successfully, and passes the happy-path test. The dangerous mistakes tend to live in the assumptions around that code: who is allowed to call an endpoint, which credentials are exposed, and whether one user can access another user’s data.

Before shipping an AI-assisted Next.js and Supabase application, I check these seven areas.

1. Search for exposed secrets