Vibe coding security: what to check in an app built with AI
Six checks the owner of a Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor or Base44 app can run without reading code, each tied to a public incident and a primary source.
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Longer reads on building things, making decisions and working with developers.
This archive is for work with something real behind it: a build, an experiment, a failure, or a position earned by doing the work. Sources stay close to factual claims, and uncertainty stays visible.
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Six checks the owner of a Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor or Base44 app can run without reading code, each tied to a public incident and a primary source.
Six questions for a business hiring a web developer, the difference between an answer that is a claim and one that can be checked, and who owns commissioned code.
What a Claude Code subagent is, what it can and can't see, and why its requests draw on the same usage limit as the main session, with a dated record of 37 subagents in one day.
What legal and accounting regulators in Britain, the US and Europe say about client data in AI tools, set against OpenAI's own terms for each ChatGPT plan, read 3 October 2026.
What I pay for in September 2026, what each AI subscription is actually for in my work, and why I don't pay API prices.
What published measurements show about AI coding agents claiming work they didn't do, and how one lab keeps the claim apart from the check.
What an AI coding benchmark score measures, how the public benchmarks corrected their own tests, and twelve times one lab caught its own instrument wrong.
A viral post put a number on the maintenance cost of AI-written code. Traced to its sources, and set beside what research actually measured.
Where Claude Code loads CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md, why both are context rather than configuration, and one rule that gave two agents opposite answers.
Where Claude Code loads CLAUDE.md and hooks, the subfolder where a write guard never ran, and what the guard still cannot see.
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