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Introduction Over the past year, tools like Claude Code and Cursor have made it incredibly easy to ship features quickly. Writing, refactoring, and deploying code has never been faster. Security testing, however, has not kept up at the same pace. In ...

Feb 4 · 5 min read · hrdxh.hashnode.dev  
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