Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks

arXiv — cs.CLThursday, December 4, 2025 at 5:00:00 AM
  • Vibe coding, a programming approach where human engineers guide large language model (LLM) agents to perform complex coding tasks, has raised concerns regarding the safety of its outputs in production environments. A benchmark study, SU S VI B E S, evaluated 200 software engineering tasks and found that while 61% of solutions from the SWE-Agent with Claude 4 Sonnet were functionally correct, only 10.5% were secure, indicating significant vulnerabilities in agent-generated code.
  • This development highlights critical security risks associated with the increasing reliance on automated coding agents. The findings suggest that current methodologies in vibe coding may not adequately address software security, potentially leading to unsafe implementations in real-world applications and necessitating a reevaluation of how these technologies are deployed in production settings.
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