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The only thing it’s upending is sane engineering practices in my experience. I just reviewed a python flask app which was basically “vibe coded” by a couple people speed running a checklist of features. I open up the auth.py file to find it is integrated with an idp using oauth. Whether the caller has the correct scopes is never checked. I grab client credentials for a completely unrelated app. Hit /admin using my bearer token. Sure enough anybody with a valid set of client credentials could have had full admin access to this app for a year. But hey, at least when I asked how they tested the app they were quickly able to generate thousands of lines of pytest.


We're entering the age of toddlers on motorcycles when it comes to software engineering.


I logged into my CTOs account with an empty string once. This was before vibe coding.


Vibe coding may make an existing problem even worse.




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