Sending your youngsters to coding classes can give them some invaluable skills that could prove useful in a wide range of circumstances, especially if they go on to study STEM subjects at more advanced levels and might even seek careers in science and technology fields.

Over time, they will learn using different coding programmes, but will ‘vibe coding’ be among them?

What Is The Problem With Vibe Coding?

Vibe coding is a system which offers a shortcut, as the user can simply instruct the AI system to create code for them by telling it what it wants the code to do. The instruction is the vibe and the AI makes the code. The implication is that extensive coding skills are not really required.

This all sounds great, but is it? As Infoworld reports, not everyone is sure, especially cyber security firm Tenzai. Its survey of five vibe coding applications found that the codes generated contained numerous insecurities.

Five of the best-known vibe coding tools - Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Replit and Devin - were each given prompts to build three test applications. On average, each code had 69 vulnerabilities, with 45 being ranked as low to medium in severity, but the others being listed as high or even critical.

Tenzai is far from alone in identifying security issues with vibe coding. Palo Alto Networks highlighted issues earlier this month, noting that the adoption of vibe coding has led to common security protocols and protections, ranging from a lack of human oversight to firewalls not being in operation, while many organisations had not assessed risks.

Palo Alto is now introducing its own security governance framework for vibe coding. It acknowledges that this method does offer productivity gains, but, in view of the fact that serious security incidents have already occurred due to the flaws in the technology, more oversight is now required.

It may be that vibe coding can iron out these issues in time. But for now, the problems it has may be an indication that this may not be the next big thing after all and that, rather than enjoy a simple shortcut to producing code, your kids may need the full range of skills to become effective coders.