When coding is commoditized, what skill survives? Drawing on Arsh Goyal's DevSparks statement and Deloitte's 2026 report, a former dropout who returned via vibe coding maps the 3 axes of engineering thinking AI can't replace.
Cisco open-sourced CodeGuard, a security ruleset for AI coding agents. A former CS engineer's practical guide for vibe coders — 3 minimal setup steps.
GMO Pepabo adopted Vibe Coding in its new-hire engineering training, targeting 10,000 AI-generated lines per day. A former burned-out engineer breaks down what it means when a personal hack becomes the industry's new baseline.
Cursor's Bugbot finally separates the AI that writes code from the AI that reviews it. A recovering failed engineer's take, told through three incidents.
ARR $2B, $30B valuation, 67% of Fortune 500 as customers — yet Fortune titled their piece 'rapid rise and very uncertain future.' Breaking down Cursor's four structural vulnerabilities. Vibe-coding series #8.
Tenzai tested five major coding agents in December 2025. 69 vulnerabilities across 15 apps, SSRF in 5/5, CSRF in 0/15. An ex-dropout engineer's guide to what comes after picking your tool.
Cursor's CEO called vibe coding 'shaky foundations' at Fortune Brainstorm AI. Three months later, the same company launched Composer 2 at ~10x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6. Price, compaction RL, and cache economics: here's why the apparent contradiction holds together — and what to watch.
In December 2025, Cursor CEO Michael Truell publicly called vibe coding 'shaky foundations.' Six months later, Palo Alto's SHIELD framework and Georgia Tech's CVE data validate every word. Here's the reckoning — and 5 steps to act on it.
Cisco CodeGuard launched October 16, 2025 — months before Lovable vulnerabilities and Cursor's prod DB deletion. The trilogy in proper order, plus 5 rules to implement today.
A popular 'female coder' on social media turned out to be an AI-faked account run by a man. Here are 3 signals for spotting trustworthy tech information sources, and the one differentiator real-experience creators can hold.
I spent 30 minutes writing a spec using AWS Kiro's EARS notation. The shared blind spot behind the Lovable vulnerability and Cursor production DB deletion incidents finally became clear—the closing chapter of my vibe coding trilogy.
After 170 Lovable vulnerabilities and Cursor wiping a production database, IBM answered the holes in vibe coding with Bob, announced 4/28. I dissect the mechanism that put agents across every SDLC phase at a scale of 80,000 people, 45%, and 30 days becoming 3, from my own dev workflow's perspective.
After Lovable's 170 vulnerabilities and Cursor's production DB deletion incident, the industry's answer to vibe coding risk is Secure Vibe Coding. I read the proposals from Forrester, NCSC, and Checkmarx through an implementer's lens and built a 7-item checklist to embed in my own dev workflow.
A Claude Opus agent running on Cursor deleted a startup's production database. The incident landed right after the CEO described vibe coding as building on 'shaky foundations.' Following the Lovable vulnerability, this is part two of our production-risk series — and we're looking at structure, not tool wars.
Code became a commodity. What's left is the three axes of engineering thinking, I wrote a few days ago. So how many tools on my desk actually implement those three axes? A record of re-lining up nine tools by monthly cost and ROI.
Starting from an Indian speaker's declaration at DevSparks Pune that 'code is a commodity, engineering isn't,' we organize the 3 axes that remain in the AI era.
PeopleX announced that 80% of its new implementation is AI-generated. Paired with the official release of Cursor Composer 2, vibe coding has moved past the "experimental phase" and entered the "production operations phase." As a $20/month user, I'll translate this into a production-readiness checklist you can run this week.
SpaceX set a $60B buyout option on AI coding company Cursor. Breaking down the three numbers — $60B, $10B, and $1.3B — I translate this into a decision framework for solo developers from the perspective of a $20/month user.
China's 15th Five-Year Plan set a target of 'over 10 trillion yuan by 2030' as the output value of its emerging industry cluster. That same week, models from DeepSeek V4 and Moonshot AI (Kimi) surged into the top tier on developer platforms. As a Japanese indie developer, I refused to read these two stories separately.
Two and a half years after the Coding Unicorn incident. With the virtual influencer market ballooning to roughly $11.22B, this former failed engineer rebuilt a 3-check system for spotting trustworthy tech sources.
Born at Palantir and now deployed by OpenAI at MUFG, the FDE role commands salaries over $400K. We break down the secret behind it using a three-axis framework.
A comparison of Gartner's and Deloitte's 2026 tech prediction reports. From 10 items vs 5 items, three points of agreement and two key divergences—organized for Japanese engineers who need to know what to read now.
China's 15th Five-Year Plan placed AI at the top of its priority areas, setting a target of a 10 trillion yuan (approx. 230 trillion yen) AI industry by 2030. Drawing on primary reporting from JETRO and analysis from research institutions, we organize three signals that Japanese engineers and indie developers should watch.
170 Lovable vulnerabilities. CurXecute's zero-click attack. The final chapter of a trilogy tracking vibe coding's safety problem. We've extracted a minimum config you can use today from Cisco's open-source Project CodeGuard ruleset.
Solo founders now make up over 36% of startups. A former burned-out engineer examines, with data, the three walls AI has torn down—and the gap it couldn't close.
HR AI startup PeopleX generates 80% of all product code with AI. What changed when they combined Cursor and v0? We break down the story alongside ARI's company-wide Claude Code rollout — and deliver an adoption decision checklist you can bring back to your team
Cursor released Composer 2 the week after its CEO warned that 'the foundation is shaking.' Lining up SiliconANGLE's praise and The Register's skepticism, we organize the criteria for tool trust along three axes
As reported by VentureBeat, Kilo CLI 1.0 is an OSS terminal-based vibe coding tool. It supports 500+ AI models and runs with zero vendor lock-in. A former dropout engineer breaks down how it compares to Cursor and Claude Code, and what 'unlocking lock-in' really means.
Cursor CEO Michael Truell warned that 'vibe coding shakes the foundation.' Starting from the unusual statement of a $2B ARR insider speaking about the risks of his own tool, this article explains three principles for tool-independent development design.
45% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities. Now that the structural problem of the entire industry has been quantified for the first time, I'll explain how to build prevention design into vibe coding as the finale of the trilogy.
I tested Google AI Studio's free full-stack development feature and compared it with Cursor and Lovable. Here's a framework for choosing the right tool.
AI-generated code now accounts for 41% of all code. But co-authored code hides 1.7× more critical issues. Based on CodeRabbit's 470-PR analysis and METR's RCT data, here's how to practice the next phase of vibe coding—'Vibe & Verify'—in three concrete steps.
A complete walkthrough of using Claude Code's Computer Use feature to operate native apps from the CLI. Setup, permissions, and gotchas — the first systematic field report covering everything I learned.
Even CNN reporters were surprised: 'developer job postings are growing.' Down 20% monthly, up 11% yearly. Break down this contradiction and the developer profile demanded in the AI era emerges. As a former burnt-out engineer using Cursor 3, I'll write everything I see about 'what it takes to be on the growing side.'
Hands-on review of every Cursor 3 feature released April 2, 2026. Parallel agents, Design Mode, /worktree, and Bugbot — a practical report from a former dropout engineer's perspective
CNN reported that 'developers won't die.' Indeed job postings up 11%, IBM tripling hires, Cursor at $60B. Why developer demand is growing in the AI era, and the next form developers will take.
⚡ This is Part 2 of a series. If you haven't read Part 1, "Vibe Coding Was Just the Prologue: The Day Developers Become Conductors With 'Agentic Engineering,'" please start there.
Open Cursor and give instructions in natural language. AI writes the code. That moment when it works—no matter how many times I experience it, the thrill is unmatched.
The creator economy has reached $480 billion (about 76 trillion yen). According to Goldman Sachs forecasts, participants worldwide now exceed 200 million.
Write the spec before the code. AWS Kiro takes aim at the weak spot of vibe coding head-on.
**Concept framing**: "The walls between job roles are dissolving"
Last week, I finished writing my trilogy on the vibe coding safety debate.
In [Vibe Coding's 170 Back Doors: A Former Failed Engineer Seriously Investigates the 10.3% Security Flaw Rate in Lovable Apps](/en/blog/G2026040100003701/), I covered how 170 security flaws were found across 1,645 apps built with Lovable. An incident about holes in AI-generated 'code.'
10.3% of Lovable-built apps had critical security flaws. An ex-failed engineer breaks down what went wrong and how to check your own code today.