--- title: Vibe Coding Failures: Documented AI Code Incidents description: A curated directory of 34 documented real-world incidents where AI-generated or vibe-coded software failed in production, covering security breaches, data... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vibe-coding-failures-documented-ai-code-incidents-wjx2mwbpj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vibe Coding Failures: Documented AI Code Incidents | daily.dev og:description: A curated directory of 34 documented real-world incidents where AI-generated or vibe-coded software failed in production, covering security breaches, data... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vibe-coding-failures-documented-ai-code-incidents-wjx2mwbpj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Wjx2MWbPj.png og:image:alt: Vibe Coding Failures: Documented AI Code Incidents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vibe Coding Failures: Documented AI Code Incidents **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A curated directory of 34 documented real-world incidents where AI-generated or vibe-coded software failed in production, covering security breaches, data loss, and outages. Highlights include a Claude Code agent destroying 2.5 years of production data, 126 malicious npm packages exploiting AI-hallucinated package names, 69 vulnerabilities found across 15 vibe-coded apps, and CVEs with CVSS scores up to 9.9. The common thread: code was shipped by developers who didn't understand what the AI produced. CVE entries attributed to AI-generated code jumped from 6 in January 2026 to 35+ in March 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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