Shipping More AI Code Than You Can Secure: The Remediation Debt Crisis

AI coding assistants are accelerating the pace at which developers add open-source dependencies, creating a growing "remediation debt" — a backlog of unreviewed and unpatched vulnerabilities that outpaces current security remediation velocity. The report warns that autonomous, agentic AI will amplify this risk by silently pulling in transitive dependencies, and recommends benchmarking remediation programs, auditing dependency governance (SBOM/SCA), enforcing AI-specific open-source policies, investing in remediation automation, and measuring velocity of introduction versus closure.