[DrewADesign]

In my experience, most garden variety security problems stem from a) the developer not understanding the implications of something (maybe because they’re new, or operating outside of their usual domain,) or b) the developer not paying close enough attention to realize they did something they know is stupid. We’re only human.

Vibe coding obviously doesn’t make something insecure, per se, but saying it doesn’t reduce the attention paid to any given line of code, or encourage less knowledgeable people to write code, seems pretty dubious to me.

The Claude Code team is clearly competent and professional, yet they accidentally published the proprietary source code for one of the world’s hottest products. That’s like a Bank manager walking away with the keys in the door and alarm disarmed. When’s the last time you heard of a human team of developers doing that?

Again, I’m not saying that vibe coding necessarily creates unsafe code, but I don’t see how anyone could say vibe coding was devoid of security implications. I think this is an organizational/logistical problem that we’ll figure out at some point, but in think it’s going to be more of a C buffer overflow ‘figured out’ that never really goes away.

[lnenad]

Very reasonable take, I agree 100%. But I don't you're putting any responsibility with users of the such very vibe coded apps. OpenClaw was primarily marketed towards devs and people in touch with IT. They should know better.

[DrewADesign]

Sure. I reckon blaming the system for the intentional actions of a few is a great way to avoid individual accountability. Conversely, blaming many individuals for fundamental systemic or leadership problems is a great way to avoid accountability for leaders and systemic beneficiaries. It’s not rational to exclude either.

I’m also not sure that the distinction of dev makes much of a difference in this space because chatbot marketing works pretty damn hard to imply everybody is a prompt away from being a developer. How are those people going to know that they aren’t even qualified to make any given technical decision, let alone evaluate the output of a confident chatbot that’s magically writing programs for them?