#3 About vibe coding

In this episode, Toby and Krisztian explore vibe coding — building software using AI tools and natural language rather than writing code directly. Krisztian shares hands-on experiments with Replit and Cursor, the hosts discuss the impressive speed of prototyping versus the frustration when things go wrong, and they dig into the hidden security risks of putting powerful development tools in the hands of non-technical users. The conversation also covers AI-assisted cyberattacks, supply chain vulnerabilities, and what the explosion of AI-generated apps means for the software industry.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:50 What is vibe coding?

1:47 Krisztian's experiment with Replit

3:54 Building a microservice diagramming tool with AI

6:55 Toby's experience with Lovable

10:09 Cursor vs Replit

14:00 Getting stuck in loops and losing flow state

23:16 The mainframe parallel: computing cycles and AI costs

28:42 Pricing and the race to the bottom

33:27 Why you still need developers in the loop

40:05 Supabase and Lovable integration, vendor lock-in

44:29 Security risks of vibe coding

47:28 AI-assisted cyberattacks and the arms race

59:05 Supply chain attacks and model poisoning

1:01:34 The explosion of AI slop

1:05:08 Prompt engineering and LLM manipulation

1:08:00 Summary and recommendations

Technologies Mentioned

Replit - https://replit.com

Cursor - https://www.cursor.com

Lovable - https://lovable.dev

Supabase - https://supabase.com

Claude (Anthropic) - https://www.anthropic.com

React - https://react.dev

TypeScript - https://www.typescriptlang.org

GitHub Copilot - https://github.com/features/copilot

OpenRouter - https://openrouter.ai