AI vs Rule-Based Secret Scanning in CI: Which Actually Works (opens in new tab)

Originally published on kuryzhev.cloud Your CI pipeline passed clean, the PR merged, and three hours later your AWS keys were rotating — because your regex scanner never saw the secret encoded inside a base64 config blob. AI secret scanning in CI pipelines promises to close that gap, but it comes with its own set of tradeoffs that most comparison posts quietly skip over. I've run both approaches in production environments ranging from a 5-person startup to a 200-developer platform org, and th...