Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible

Just like you probably don’t grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don’t write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow and could create more security issues than it solves. So developers draw on existing libraries—often open source projects—to get various basic software components in place.

While this approach is efficient, it can create exposure and lack of visibility into software. Increasingly, however, the rise of…