SMRTR ProgrammingJun 18, 2026Hacker News

The Line Vibe Coding Can't Cross

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Vibe coding (prompting an AI and shipping its output unreviewed) introduces a measurable defect tax that prototypes can absorb but production systems cannot. Roughly 45% of AI-generated code contains security flaws, with XSS errors at 2.74× human baselines. The fix isn't abandoning AI, but restoring spec-driven development, adversarial verification, and named human accountability before anything touches auth, payments, or untrusted input.

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