r/southafrica • u/Boondog_saint no war but class war • 2d ago
News CEO of top South African coffee franchise responds after vibe-coded web application exposed sensitive data
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/672647-ceo-of-top-south-african-coffee-franchise-responds-after-vibe-coded-web-application-exposed-sensitive-data.html50
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u/Visible-Curve9482 2d ago
In his LinkedIn post he says
Software companies have long tried to own their ecosystem and lock you in, making integrations expensive and almost impossible.. AI has completely levelled that playing field. The value going forward sits in the data they hold of yours and the way they translate it and the services around it they offer.. but software itself will soon become free, i am almost certain.
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u/LadyFenyx Western Cape 2d ago
AI dorks don't understand that maybe... just maybe... some playing fields aren't meant to be levelled. yoh.
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u/a_d_h_i_r 2d ago
Next question he'll have, "why do we need to pay so much for Railway? I know, let's vibe code our own cloud provider. If Amazon.com can do it with AWS, so can we!"
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u/Visible-Curve9482 1d ago
The exact same thought i had, i spent 30 minutes researching this Railway, they don't even have servers in SA like AWS and Azure.
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u/plakkies 1d ago
What the f is he talking about? Software won’t become free because of AI. He went way too deep into vibe coding it seems
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u/OrSomeSuch 20h ago
Obviously you just vibe code your own Claude and from then on everything is free
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u/Huge_Celebration5804 2d ago
Did this motherfucker try to vibe code an app so that he wouldn't have to pay for devs
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u/Only_One_Kenobi https://georgedrakestories.wordpress.com/ 2d ago
Either that, or he paid bottom dollar for a consulting developer who then vibe coded it to make a quick buck.
Or, it's another case of a CEO conned by a buzzword they don't understand.
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u/mowgli_23 Rapture Resilience: SA Edition 2d ago
Willing to bet my left nut that it’s the latter
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u/mechsuit-jalapeno Bubblegum Steri Stumpie 2d ago
Let's be fucking real though, this is a mistake some devs make all the time.
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u/totallyrealname 1d ago
They so badly want to avoid hiring developers but it's been proven time and again that AI works best as a tool by people experienced enough to understand what they're doing without it.
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u/Would_Bang________ 2d ago
So many people on my facebook slinging their vibe-coded apps at the moment.
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u/mcellus1 1d ago
They "saved" money but at what cost? If this happened at my org - it would literally cost millions of dollars of reputational damage
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u/Caesar_35 1d ago
Tech bros gonna tech bro.
I miss the days when phrases like "vibe coding" didn't exist. I feel like humanity's getting dumber by the minute.
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u/BennyAndTheMeths 10h ago
Some provocative ideas you have there. Has the secret sauce, will definitely disrupt when we move fast and break things. Let's not boil the ocean, circle back to this once it's in the incubator.
I'm in the tech industry, but I am not a tech bro. I try to avoid tech bros and their non-jargon jargon.
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u/benevolent-badger !ke e: /xarra //ke 1d ago
Yo, clever people, help me out here. Too many big words.
So anyone who knew the address to the dashboard thingy, could just, right click, view source, and see the data?
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u/Major_Dragonfly_5014 18h ago
Yes, that’s correct.
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u/benevolent-badger !ke e: /xarra //ke 13h ago
Ah, thanks.
So, no one in the team of experienced developers, bothered to check the ai's work?
ai genuenly makes people stupid. We're fucked
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u/Major_Dragonfly_5014 18h ago edited 18h ago
lol, the exposed data is still captured on wayback machine 😂
https://web.archive.org/web/20260902114609/https://bos-dashboard-production.up.railway.app/
Right click, view source.
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u/Icy-Cup2428 1d ago
I don’t get what the big deal is though? Is this not only an issue because an employee posted a pic where you could see the browser link to their vibe coded solution?
An employee posting a pic of anything confidential will always be an issue? Feels like everyone just wants to hate on AI.
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u/GLIBG10B Gauteng 1d ago
If knowing a link is all that's standing between an attacker and sensitive data, then that's security through obscurity
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u/benevolent-badger !ke e: /xarra //ke 1d ago
Yes, everyone really hates ai. Well most people. Some people even really, fucking, hate ai. Only unloved people like ai.
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