Software has always been built on a tension between speed and safety. Development teams push for faster release cycles, while security teams push for thorough testing and review. For decades, the industry has treated this as a zero-sum trade-off. If you wanted speed, you accepted risk. If you wanted safety, you sacrificed velocity.
This tension was already straining under the pressures of agile development and continuous delivery. Now, with AI rewriting the rules of software creation, the balance is collapsing altogether.
