ProjectDiscovery AI Coding Impact Report: 62% of Security Teams Can't Keep Pace, 66% Spend Over Half Their Time Manually Validating Findings

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ProjectDiscovery surveyed 200 cybersecurity practitioners across mid-to-large enterprises and found: 100% report increased engineering delivery (49% attribute most to AI coding tools), but 62% say keeping up with the volume is getting harder. Two-thirds spend more than half their time manually validating findings rather than resolving vulnerabilities. The #1 security concern introduced by AI-assisted coding: secrets exposure (78% of respondents). 57% require a full audit trail before trusting AI-based pentesting tools. The report quantifies the growing gap between AI-accelerated code production and human security review capacity.