As AI coding assistants and autonomous agents dramatically accelerate software development, they’re introducing a security problem that most organizations aren’t prepared for: dependency sprawl at machine speed.
Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc tells The New Stack that coding agents have a blind spot. Their training data is typically a year or more out of date, which means when they reach for a library, they default to older, often insecure versions — not because they’re careless, but because that’s what they know. And as more and more…
