AI coding agents are creating a secret leakage crisis and nobody's talking about it seriously yet

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This isn't a doomer post. It's a pattern I've been watching closely and people does as well and I think it's worth an honest discussion. The old model of secret leakage was human error. Developer moves fast, forgets to add.gitignore, commits a.en file, moves on. Happens, but it's recoverable, it's traceable, and most teams with basic hygiene catch it. The new model is different. AI coding agents Cursor, Copilot, Devin, Claude in agentic mode, pick your flavor write, commit, and push code at a speed no human review process was designed to handle. They don't have security intuition.