Vibe Coding from Spark to Stronghold
Aug 06, 2025
The Rise of the Vibe
In 2025, “vibe coding” is becoming the phrase on every indie builder’s lips.
You write a prompt. The AI spits out a working feature. You tweak, ask for more, and suddenly… you’re staring at a working web app. Backend. Frontend. Logic. Auth. UI animations. All in minutes.
It’s thrilling and powerful. For the first time, builders without a CS degree, without years of full-stack experience, could create real, working software. The distance between idea and execution collapsed.
But as with any new frontier, early momentum can hide long-term risks.
When Speed Starts to Hurt
Recently, several security researchers uncovered vulnerabilities in popular platforms built with vibe coding tooling. One of the most prominent cases involved Base44, where a critical authentication flaw allowed attackers to access private enterprise applications using nothing more than a shared link.
This wasn’t a mistake born out of laziness; it was a consequence of speed. Of scaffolding apps in minutes, without reviewing what happens under the hood.
Another case involved Lovable, where misconfigured row-level security settings exposed user data like names, debt levels, and account details. It took hours, not days, for researchers to identify the issue and begin pulling sensitive information directly from production systems.
What do both of these cases have in common? The apps worked. They looked good. They were functional. But they weren’t fortified.
And once people started using them, once real-world friction hit, the cracks became impossible to ignore.
The Hidden Costs of Fast Builds
Here’s what vibe coding often skips:
- AI-generated code that no one reads and no one really understands.
- Authentication flows that look complete but break under stress.
- Fragile architectures that collapse when you add a second feature.
- Security is left to defaults, which are almost never enough.
These aren’t edge-case issues. These are the reasons most AI-coded apps today don’t make it past their Product Hunt launch week.
This isn’t to say that AI coding is broken, far from it. It’s to say that AI needs guidance. That the builder, not the tool, is still responsible for what ships.
What Vibe Coding Needs to Grow Up
For vibe coding to truly mature, we don’t need to abandon it; we need to ground it.
That means prompting with purpose, not just curiosity. It means reviewing every AI-generated function with a critical eye. It means stepping back to think like an architect, even when the scaffolding is written for you.
Production-grade code isn’t just about what works right now. It’s about how it behaves when things go wrong, when someone injects malicious data, when an API fails silently, when traffic spikes, or when a teammate needs to understand your logic.
To get there, AI-powered builders need to develop the same habits good engineers have always had: version control, modular structure, security-first thinking, testing, and clarity.
Vibe coding is a tool, not a substitute for ownership.
The Future: Fast, But Not Fragile
The future of software is undeniably AI-assisted. That part is inevitable. But the future of great software, the kind people rely on, pay for, and trust, will still be built by humans who understand what their tools are doing.
We’re not heading into a code-free world. We’re heading into a code-aware world.
Creators who embrace that will move faster than ever, without sacrificing the integrity of what they build. They’ll use AI not just to generate features, but to unlock clarity. To ship faster and more securely. To go from idea to impact with confidence.
If you’re building in public, shipping experiments, or pushing prototypes, vibe coding is your superpower.
If you’re building something meant to last? Then it’s time to move from flow… to fortitude.
That's what we teach at VIBEKING.