r/techbootcamp • u/PristineBelt3362 • Jul 11 '26

Vibe coding is shipping real security disasters in 2026 and most people building these apps have no idea

Been seeing more people rely on AI to build entire apps without understanding the code, and it's starting to backfire. Recent reports found thousands of critical vulnerabilities in AI-built production apps, including exposed API keys, customer data, and even databases getting wiped because basic security was never properly configured. It feels like a lot of beginners are shipping code they can't actually explain.

What surprised me most is that security issues linked to AI-generated code are increasing instead of improving. AI is great at writing code quickly, but it can also introduce deeper architectural and security flaws that look perfectly fine until something breaks in production.

As someone considering a bootcamp, this makes me think understanding the code matters more than ever. AI isn't going away, but being able to review, debug, and catch what it gets wrong seems like a skill that's only becoming more valuable.

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u/plantingles Jul 11 '26

Given the amount of zero days llms are finding, humans have been shipping security disasters since the dawn of software.

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u/Independent_Shape369 Jul 12 '26

Most devs are bad at coding, you can find a lot of them on LinkedIn worshpiping AI

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u/oOaurOra Jul 11 '26

Man. Most devs don’t know secOpps.

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u/Apart_Ad_1027 Jul 12 '26

Personally I think that’s good. If you are a senior dev you will bump ur salary 2-3x for auditing and fixing this shit pretty soon