Something quietly shifted in the last two years. We learned to build software faster than at any point in history and we started shipping vulnerabilities just as fast.
The code is moving faster than the reviews
The numbers are hard to argue with. In Veracode's 2025 study of more than 100 language models, 45% of AI-generated code introduced a vulnerability from the OWASP Top 10 and overall, AI-generated code contains 2.74 times more vulnerabilities than code written by humans. Java fared worst, failing security tests more than 70% of the time. And here is the part that should give everyone pause: as these models got smarter at writing code through 2025, they got no safer. Functionality improved. Security stayed flat.
Now multiply that by adoption. More than 70% of developers lean on AI assistants today, and the output shows it by mid-2025, one analysis was tracking roughly ten times as many new security findings entering codebases each month as a year earlier. We are generating more code, more quickly, with less review, than the world has ever seen. Most of it never gets a second look.
The other side didn't stand still
That would be a manageable problem if attackers were standing still. They aren't.
The same tools that let a solo founder ship a product over a weekend let an attacker find its weaknesses overnight. CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report recorded an 89% rise in attacks by AI-enabled adversaries. The window to exploit a newly disclosed flaw has collapsed from years to hours Mandiant's M-Trends 2026 found that exploitation now happens an average of 7 days before a patch is even released. Attacks that once demanded a skilled team can now be run by a single operator with a commercial AI doing the heavy lifting.
This is the asymmetry that defines security right now. AI made building cheap. It made breaking cheap too. And defense the slow, human work of finding and fixing what is wrong before someone else does never got the same upgrade.
This is why we started LaunchSafe
We started this because we kept watching the same thing happen teams that genuinely cared, moving fast, doing their best, and still getting caught out. Not because they were careless. Because the tools they had were built for a different era.
We're just getting started, and we have a lot more to share. But if you're a founder, an engineer, or anyone building something that matters we started LaunchSafe for you.
The tools to build the future are already in everyone's hands. So are the tools to break it. The only question left is who finds the cracks first.
- Praneeth Narisetty & the LaunchSafe Team