Autonomous dev is coming: Is your AppSec ready?

**Executive summary:** This article assesses the security implications of increasingly autonomous AI-driven software development, warning that AI-generated code, insecure defaults, and overly trusted dependencies can scale into an "automated vulnerability factory." Industry experts advise AppSec teams to shift security left, integrate automated code-scanning and CI/CD monitoring, protect AI tooling and agents, develop standards and red-teaming guidelines for AI development, and adopt modern techniques such as binary analysis and reproducible builds to strengthen software supply-chain security.