CYBERSECURITY<\/p>\n
The best thing about vibe coding is that almost anyone can build software now. The worst thing about vibe coding is that almost anyone can build software now.<\/strong><\/p>\n The same capability that democratises software creation also removes many of the friction points that caught errors. When you don’t understand what the code does, you can’t evaluate whether it’s safe, correct, or maintainable. You’re trusting the AI’s judgement entirely \u2014 and AI, when it comes to security, has some deeply ingrained bad habits.<\/p>\n Tested against standard security benchmarks, AI-generated code shows consistent patterns of weakness: SQL injection vulnerabilities in database interactions, inadequate input validation, hardcoded credentials, insecure default configurations, and insufficient error handling that leaks sensitive information.<\/p>\n These aren’t exotic edge cases. They’re the bread-and-butter vulnerabilities that security teams spend their lives hunting for. And they appear in AI-generated code at higher rates than in code written by experienced developers \u2014 partly because the training data includes a lot of old, insecure examples from the internet.<\/p>\n “AI has some deeply ingrained bad habits when it comes to security, learned from decades of insecure code on the internet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n None of this means AI-assisted coding is net negative for security. It absolutely isn’t. AI is genuinely excellent at explaining security concepts, reviewing code for known vulnerability patterns, suggesting fixes, and keeping up with security best practices across a wider range of frameworks than any individual developer could track.<\/p>\n The issue is the uncritical use of AI to produce code that goes into production without security review. If you’re building with AI, treat every output as code you wrote at 2am after a long week. Review it. Test it. Don’t trust it blindly just because it was produced quickly and looks clean.<\/p>\n Tags: Artificial Intelligence \u2022 Opinion \u2022 Technology & Society \u2022 192.168.1.22\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AI-assisted coding has made building software accessible to people who couldn’t write a line before. It’s also shipped a lot of vulnerable code. Both things are true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9082,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9014\/revisions\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What “Vibe Coding” Actually Produces<\/h2>\n
The Opportunity in the Problem<\/h2>\n