Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Artificial intelligence has torn through many industries since the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, but there’s probably no single area where it’s had a clearer material impact than software development. Programmers running the gamut from experienced to novice have embraced the tech, using chatbots and specialty tools to quickly generate code from natural language prompts. “Vibe coding,” as it’s come to be known, lets almost anyone churn out entire apps in little time — even if they have little or no technical chops. On a certain level, you have to admit that’s pretty cool. But as we’re learning time and again, it also has distinct downsides. One particularly glaring drawback is that a lot of vibe-coded software is now being deployed with gaping security flaws. In the latest sign that we may be veering into an AI-enabled hack-pocalypse, a fascinating new Wired story covers research by a cybersecurity firm called RedAccess that found sprawling privacy issues in vibe-coded …