Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Vibe coding isn’t what a lot of people seem to think it is.

This has sent shockwaves across developer circles. As details continue to emerge, both the tech industry and Amazon's user base have responded with criticism, concern, and calls for transparency. It ...

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...

A recent breach involving Amazon’s AI coding assistant, Q, has raised fresh concerns about the security of large language model based tools. A hacker successfully added a potentially destructive ...

Every decade or so, we see a seismic shift in the way software is built. First, it was the rise of IDEs, then Git, then CI/CD and now—welcome to the era of vibe coding. Vibe coding is more than just a ...

A hacker managed to insert destructive system commands into Amazon’s Visual Studio Code extension used for accessing its AI-powered coding assistant, Q, which was later distributed to users through an ...

A quiet compromise of a popular open-source coding editor has turned into one of the most unsettling software supply-chain stories of the year. Attackers silently hijacked the infrastructure behind ...

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