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01Authentication

Broken Auth

Vibe-coded apps share one flaw: authentication that looks right and functions right, but whose security model is Swiss cheese. The developer never sees it, because they only ever tested with one account.

02Authentication

Auth That Looks Right

AI-generated authentication is dangerous precisely because it looks right and functions right — while the security model underneath is Swiss cheese. A working login screen proves nothing about what's behind it.

03Authentication

Auth At Scale

The auth bugs that end companies never show up in testing. They show up under concurrent load, when session tokens collide and user A opens user B's dashboard.

04Secrets & Keys

Leaking Secrets

AI coding platforms don't sandbox your secrets, don't audit for exposed credentials, and don't enforce least privilege. If you're not paying attention, your keys ship with your app — and bots find them before your first customer does.

05Web Vulnerabilities

Input Validation

AI-generated code compiles, runs, and demos beautifully — and most of it cannot defend against a basic cross-site scripting attack. The model optimized for "works", not for "hostile input".

06Supply Chain

Dependency Audit

AI builds by importing libraries — and it never checks whether those libraries are maintained, vulnerable, or even legal to ship. Your app is only as secure as its weakest import.

07Security

The Security Checklist

Every serious product goes through a pre-launch security review — dozens of items, checked one by one, every release. Most solo builders run zero of them. Not because they're lazy, but because nobody ever showed them the list.

08Security

State Of AI Code Security

If an LLM generated your app and it hit production without a human security pass, you're not running a startup. You're running an experiment on your customers' data.

09Scaling

The Scaling Cliff

AI-generated code optimizes for *works*, not for *works at scale*. Nothing is wrong until everything is wrong at once — and by then, it's launch day.

10Scaling

The API Wall

Every vibe-coded app hits the same ceiling: it runs beautifully for one user and collapses the moment real traffic shows up.

11Cost Control

Controlling API Costs

API costs that look negligible in a demo become the line item that kills your margin at scale, and by the time you notice, the invoice has already landed.

12Cost Control

The Prompt Bill

An AI feature that costs nothing with one user costs a fortune with a thousand — model the bill before you set the price, not after the first invoice.

13Observability

The Logging Black Hole

Vibe-coded apps generate code for the happy path — never code that records what happened when things go wrong.

14Observability

Real Logging

AI writes features on command. It never writes observability unless you ask — so most vibe-coded apps run with no idea what's actually happening inside them.

15Database

The Database Time Bomb

Every schema change made straight to production without a record of it is a bet that nothing will ever go wrong. Eventually the bet loses.

16Deployment

Deployment Roulette

When a deployment succeeds or fails at random, the process isn't broken — it never existed in the first place.

17Release

Feature Flags

Feature flags split "deploy the code" from "turn on the feature" into two separate decisions — so you never have to bet an entire release on one moment.

18Testing

The Demo Trap

Vibe-coded apps get built and tested against one perfect path — one user, clean data, ideal conditions — and that path is never what real users take.

19Production Readiness

The 80 Percent Wall

AI tools take an idea to a working prototype in a weekend — then production readiness stalls it, because a working demo and a shippable product are not the same thing.

20Architecture

API-First Architecture

AI doesn't click buttons. If your platform only exposes features through a UI, no AI agent — yours or anyone else's — can actually use it.

21Architecture

You Can’t Bolt AI On

Before you promise an AI feature, check whether your architecture can physically support one — most legacy platforms can't, and no amount of clever prompting fixes that.

22Compliance

Passing App Review

App-store review is a production gate, not a formality — treat it like a security audit or you'll spend months resubmitting.

23Documentation

Built To Hand Off

AI can write code that runs on your laptop — it doesn't automatically write code another human can maintain.

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