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Original: https://martinfowler.com/articles/vibesec-reckoning.html

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Summary

A May 2026 martinfowler.com article by a Thoughtworks Global Marketing AI applications team describing how scaling a vibe-coded prototype built by citizen builders surfaced insecure AI suggestions, such as a public storage bucket and an over-permissioned service account. It argues that prompting an AI to be secure is not enough and recommends short-term habits, a versioned security context file loaded into every AI coding session, a daily security intelligence feed, and secure-by-default templates and a shared starter harness backed by deterministic checks.

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