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The 'Security Theater' Trap: Why Your 30-Second AI Code Scan Is Giving You a False Sense of Safety (opens in new tab)

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Your AI assistant just wrote 200 lines of authentication middleware. It looks clean. It passes the linter. The tests are green. You're about to hit commit when you remember: this code came from a model trained on internet repositories, and you never actually read half of it. Now you're staring at the diff, wondering if you should actually review it line by line — or just trust the AI that wrote it. That's 45 minutes you don't have. A post on Qiita — Japan's largest developer community — tackl...

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