We Now Build Code Faster Than We Can Understand It: The New Risk of AI Speed
Brief
There’s an old story about an apprentice who enchants a broom to fetch water, then can’t stop it. He panics and hacks it in half, only to end up with two brooms working just as fast, then more, then a flood, because the process he set loose was never going to slow down just because he wanted to stop it. Software in 2026 has the same problem. It doesn’t need more automation.
It needs something that can actually keep up with what’s already been set loose.
Securing enterprise codebases was already challenging because most contain code written in multiple languages. AI assistants are now adding to that challenge by generating code in whichever language they determine is best for the task, whether or not your scanner can read it. TIOBE’s index now tracks more than fifty languages in active use – and they aren’t the languages you might expect.