Checkmarx's new SAST engine isn't about the LLM. It's about what happens after.

Checkmarx's new AI-augmented SAST engine isn't chasing a flashier LLM — it's betting that orchestration and post-scan remediation are the real differentiator as AI coding tools flood pipelines with more code than legacy scanners can handle. The piece notes the broader SAST market

For developers, the implication is that security tooling is moving up the SDLC stack: from "did we find the bug?" to "who fixes it, when, and how do we prove it was fixed?" Checkmarx's release pairs the new engine with AI-assisted remediation playbooks that suggest concrete patches inside the PR. The trend lines up with Snyk's Evo agentic security launch (June 23) and Veracode's recent findings on AI-generated code defect rates — the security industry is rebuilding around an assumption that AI is now writing most new code.