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We all knew in our harts it was true, and guess what? Its true:
If you are shipping code written by AI agents without scanning it, you are likely shipping vulnerabilities.
The paper 'Is Vibe Coding Safe?' Benchmarking the Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks, a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University conducted a study. The team included Songwen Zhao, Danqing Wang and Lei Li. The simple truth is proven. This is the truth for today, but the industry could change one day and future tech could solve the issue. But not yet. Not in today's world.
Links:
Abstract - https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03262
PDF - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.03262
Researchers tested top-tier coding agents (Claude 4 Sonnet with SWE-Agent) on 200 real-world software tasks.
The Verdict: Over 80% of the "working" code contained critical security vulnerabilities.
Vibe coding is fast, but the data proves it's a security minefield. Don't trust the vibes. Scan the bytes.
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