Why AI Is Breaking Your API Security Model (And Nobody on Your Team Notices)

Your API gateway is lying to you. While you’ve been perfecting your OAuth flow and rate-limiting on the front door, AI has been busy building back doors. Over the last year, our "official" API documentation has become a work of fiction. For every documented endpoint, there are now three more living in the shadows, scaffolded by AI, pushed in a hurry, and completely invisible to our security stack. At first, it felt like a superpower. Need a CRUD wrapper? Copilot it. Need a specialized data trans