Human beings have had teammates since our ancestors went hunting together to refresh the tribal stock of woolly mammoth burgers. More recently, our teammates have been people who share our offices, deadlines, late night pizza, and IT issues. Now, how we view teammates is evolving, thanks to the two-letter noun that has changed everything: AI. Building Together Across even mainstream businesses, AI agents are fast becoming valuable members of the team. These agents go beyond software systems to autonomously deliver complex tasks using reasoning, planning, and learning from experience. Our new virtual colleagues are doing the slow jobs at supersonic speeds, the boring jobs without complaining, and the complex jobs without fuss. In short, they’re becoming ideal teammates whose only fault is not paying for the late night pizza (not yet anyway). This is particularly true in our own world of software development. At Checkmarx, we believe the future of software development will be a mix of agents and humans building together. Productivity and security delivered thanks to a combination of advanced tech and good old fashioned brain cells. All of which sounds great but, of course, AI isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. A New World In the past year we’ve seen AI make a huge impact on software development where the use of coding assistants is becoming widespread. Our Future of Application Security Report discovered that 50% of organizations now use AI to write code. This was mid-2025 and we expect this number to rise significantly when we report back again in 2026. AI itself is now driving cyberattacks that are more sophisticated, widescale, and dangerous than ever before. It can find the weak link in the supply chain, impacting everyone. You need to know what’s going on and what’s in place across your supplier list. As a result, security is struggling to keep up with the pace of code creation and the scope of new vulnerabilities that AI brings. This problem is so acute that traditional AppSec simply can’t cope by itself. Organizations are looking to simplify ineffective tool stacks with unified platforms that automate and combine security actions providing speed, efficiency and, above all, effectiveness. At Checkmarx, we’re specifically developing Agentic AI teammates that will provide our customers with the application security they need through our Checkmarx One platform. Meet the Checkmarx Teammates We’re redefining software security by embedding autonomous, reasoning agents inside the development process itself. Instead of waiting for code to hit the CI/CD, AI lives directly inside the IDE, understanding context, enforcing policy, and reasoning through risk as developers type. Our approach to agentic security has three pillars (and three teammates), all of which will be available in the very near future: Developer Assist Launched in 2025, Developer Assist is already making a huge difference to security for our customer. It validates both AI-generated and human written code inline, blocking unsafe completions and explaining secure alternatives in real time. Triage and Remediation Assist (launching early 2026) This agent applies governance dynamically before code ever leaves the local environment directly within the build process and in the SCM (GitHub). Aligns AI-generated logic with enterprise and regulatory policies. Insights Assist (launching early 2026) Our third agent correlates developer behavior, policy enforcement, and security telemetry to generate business-level ROI metrics. Together, all these agents form a reasoning loop that doesn’t just find problems but learns from them to help you remediate in real-time. And Your Future Colleagues? Very soon, Checkmarx will have you fully covered for code creation. We also see Agentic AI as crucial to your entire SDLC in the future. The diagram below shows you where we believe these agents will play a role in security and productivity: The Team Works In 2026, it’s no longer sensible to approach application security reactively. AppSec needs to be continuous, always on and in real time to deal with the hypersonic speeds of an AI attack and weakness of code creation. The development team of the future will be the humans who inspire the ideas, drive the projects and make the big decisions. They’ll be working alongside new AI agent teammates, doing the serious working of ensuring code is clean and AI-powered attacks are repelled by AI itself. Like good colleagues, they don’t get in the way but actually increase the productivity of developers, working alongside them directly in the IDE. This future is here now at Checkmarx. Start your journey by taking a look at Developer Assist and get in touch if you’d like a personalized demo for your own team. Tags: Agentic AI AI Agents AI generated code developer assist
