Vibe Coding, Phantom Dependencies, and Why You Need a Bouncer for npm
In the world of enterprise security, Supply Chain Attacks as considered as massive, complex nightmares—think SolarWinds or the XZ Utils backdoor. We assumed they were the domain of nation-states targeting enterprise build servers. But “Vibe Coding” has democratized the Supply Chain attack. Today, the default workflow for senior engineering is asking an LLM for a quick fix. The AI hallucinates a solution, and we copy-paste the import statement without a second thought. But LLMs are dream machines, not compilers. They don’t check the npm registry; they predict the next token. ...