Guide: The Vibe Code Trap: AI Makes Building Easy. It Doesn't Make Production Safe.

You built something real, and you built it fast. A working app, live in weeks, not months. Nobody signed off on it exactly. It just worked, so it shipped.

That's not a small achievement. It's also exactly how the risk gets in.

The tools that made it possible are built to get you to working software quickly, not to software that holds up under real users, real data and regulatory scrutiny. The defaults they choose are the ones that work immediately. Nobody involved chose to be unsafe. The tool made those choices for you, and you never saw most of them.

About the guide

This guide, written by James Ridgway, CTO at The Curve, names five security and compliance gaps that show up in almost every AI-built application, whatever the tool, whatever the person built. Each one is explained plainly:

• How it happens

• What it actually costs you if it's found

• What putting it right looks like.

None of these needs a rebuild. Most are a modest amount of engineering, once someone knows where to look. That's the part most builders don't have in-house.

Do you know where your application actually stands?

About the Curve

The Curve reviews AI-built applications the way an acquirer or a regulator would; checking what's solid, what isn't, and what needs fixing before it goes live.

We help organisations move from prototype to production safely, with the security, governance and data protection controls that AI tools don't build in by default.