Ami Luttwak, the co-founder of Wiz, a cloud security firm that was acquired by Google earlier this year, has commented on threats to cybersecurity posed by hackers using AI-driven “vibe coding.” He mentioned that the proliferation of new attack surfaces leaves most security teams overwhelmed and outnumbered, and added that if builders can “vibe-code” an app in an hour, security has to vibe right alongside.
“The history of security in the enterprise was much more centralized. ‘You want to build something? Come to me. I will tell you what to do.’ That’s approaching it like a building inspector. In today’s world, a builder can “vibe code” something in one hour. And there are hundreds of developers for every one security person. The challenge for us is making security teams and developers work together when the business pushes them to move fast. Engineers clash with security. They say, ‘I don’t have time for it. I’ll deal with it later,” Luttwak said in an interview with Business Insider.
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Luttwak also said that security needed to be democratized through self-service. “We simplify the complexity so anyone can own security. If you build it, you have to own it. It doesn’t scale any other way,” Luttwak said. He added that the approach to security needed to be as intuitive and accessible as consumer products like the iPhone, enabling any developer to implement robust security measures.
Wiz was founded in March 2020, during a pandemic that yanked workloads out of on-premise server racks and thrust them into the cloud almost overnight. The crew pivoted from network exposure to cloud security and says that within 18 months, it was posting $100 million in annual recurring revenue. In March 2025, Google parent-company Alphabet signed a $32 billion agreement to acquire the cybersecurity firm. This was the tech giant’s largest ever acquisition, and is pending regulatory sign off.
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“Vibe coding” is a term coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, and refers to an approach to building software where a person describes a coding problem to a Large Language Model (LLM), which generates the actual code. Vibe coding shifts the programmer’s role from manual coding to guiding, testing, and refining the AI-generated source code. Vibe coding is said to allow even people who don’t know how to code to create digital products like apps and websites.
The shift towards vibe coding has led to a lot of interest as well as concern. While some view it as a positive shift that saves time and makes coding accessible, others have raised concerns over traditional coding “dying,” and programmers losing jobs. Various platforms like Replit, Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf now enable programmers to write code with the assistance of AI, creating a shift in their role.