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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. ...

December 29, 2025 · 5 min · Pavan Chavali
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The Vibe Coding Trap: Architecting ‘Entropy Sentinel’, a Local-First Bodyguard for Your Clipboard

The era of “Vibe Coding” has fundamentally changed the physics of shipping software. We aren’t just typing anymore; we are conducting. Between Cursor’s Composer, the Claude CLI, and GitHub Copilot, the friction of writing syntax has evaporated. You describe the feature, the AI handles the implementation, and you stay in the flow state. But this velocity has a silent tax. When you are tab-completing entire functions at 100mph, you aren’t auditing line 42 of that generated boilerplate. You are optimizing for “Does it run?”, not " Is it safe?". ...

December 16, 2025 · 7 min · Pavan Chavali

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