I actually do use AI, I wouldn't say I'm ideologically opposed lol. Maybe I'm ideologically opposed to thought terminating clichés, or how FAANGers see it as a cudgel to cram in wherever we find an open gap just to shit infinite tokens into?
You just haven't suggested a single solution that achieves the same level of risk reduction as AI driven end-to-end exploit generation.
You claim static analysis does the job, but you haven't backed it up with any proof that it works across large diverse codebases. Meanwhile, we have proof that AI works at least somewhat, here and now.