This "Vibe Coder" Just Exposed a Massive Security Flaw

"Your biggest vulnerability is literally vibing too hard in business class."

Hello Builders! 👋

A builder just exposed critical security flaws in an app with 6,000 paying customers and 34k total users. The kicker? They got full admin access to sensitive data while the founder was posting vacation pics from business class.

This is the dark side of "ship fast, fix later" culture. Look, I'm all for moving quickly and launching before you're ready. But there's a difference between scrappy MVP energy and leaving the backend doors wide open. When you're handling real user data and processing payments, you can't just YOLO your auth layer.

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Between Tibo's security holes and Claude deleting someone's entire home directory, I'm starting to think "move fast and break things" wasn't supposed to be taken this literally. Maybe we all need to slow down just enough to add some auth checks and confirmation prompts.

What are you shipping this week? (Please tell me you're testing it first.)

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you're using AI coding tools this week, maybe don't give them sudo access. Just a thought.