TL;DR AI editors paste real-looking API keys, JWT secrets, and DB passwords straight into your source code because their training data is full of tutorials that do exactly that. A hardcoded secret in a committed file is a live credential the moment it hits your git history, and rotating it later...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/c_k_fb750e731394/why-deleting-a-hardcoded-secret-does-not-fix-it-cwe-798-1bp1)