The Downsides of Vibe Coding

Some businesses are waking up to the downsides of automated coding products. While most customers cite huge gains in developer productivity from tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Anthropic’s Claude, the code they generate sometimes doesn’t work as expected—or worse, it can make a business vulnerable to hacking or a data leak.

The risks can be high when it comes to starting up a software project from scratch using simple text prompts, also known as vibe coding. Relying on artificial intelligence–generated software for an app’s foundations—instead of simpler tasks such as suggesting bug fixes—might leave a customer with a product that has dangerous flaws.