Vibe Coding Is Killing Your Startup: The Security Debt Nobody Talks About

We need to have an honest conversation about vibe coding. In 2025, the internet fell in love with the idea: describe what you want in plain English, let an AI generate the code, ship fast, move on. Andreessen, Karpathy, half of Twitter — everyone was evangelizing the future where "coding" means prompting. No CS degree required. Build your SaaS in a weekend. The barrier to entry dropped to basically zero. And we get it. At Gerus-lab , we've watched this unfold with a mix of excitement and genuine concern. We build production systems — Web3 platforms, AI-driven SaaS, GameFi backends — and we've seen firsthand what happens when vibe-coded MVPs make it to real users. Spoiler: it's not pretty. The Numbers Are Damning Let's start with facts before opinions. A December 2025 study analyzing 470 open-source GitHub pull requests found that AI co-authored code contained 1.7x more "major" issues compared to human-written code. Veracode's research puts it even more starkly: security vulnerabilities