Field guide for CEOs and CTOs
Achtung, Vibe Coding!

Vibe coding lets anyone ship a beautiful board portal in a weekend. This 29-page field guide shows CEOs and CTOs what lives underneath the demo, and why governance software deserves zero tolerance for vibe-coded code.
Download the guide to discover:
- What the 2025 research says about the security of AI-generated code
- The Edibility Index: a five-criteria score that tells you when vibe coding is acceptable
- Ten questions to ask any GRC vendor, plus a tear-out worksheet for your next meeting
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of AI coding tasks produced code with a security flaw
highly critical vulnerabilities in ~1,400 live vibe-coded apps
slower: experienced developers with AI, who believed they were faster
of developers say vibe coding is not part of their professional work
Research covered: Veracode (100+ language models, 80 coding tasks), Escape.tech (~1,400 vibe-coded apps in production), METR (controlled study of experienced developers) and the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, all published in 2025.
Seven chapters, one index, one tear-out worksheet
29 pages written for CEOs and CTOs who are about to sign with a GRC vendor, and want to know what is underneath the demo.
Mushroom season
How vibe coding arrived, and the honest case for it.
The Spore Theorem
Why junk code grows with prompts, not with features.
What lives underground
The eight stages of software a demo never shows.
Toxic lookalikes
The security evidence, from the lab and from the wild.
The forager's field guide
Visual, company and technical tells, and ten questions for any vendor.
The Edibility Index
A five-criteria score that tells you when vibe coding is acceptable.
In the kitchen
What serious coding looks like with AI, and how Admincontrol does it.
Tear-out worksheet
Score any application and take the vendor questions to your next meeting.
45% of AI coding tasks produced code with a security flaw. Bigger, newer models were no safer.
Veracode tested more than 100 language models on 80 coding tasks. The flaws rarely show up in a demo. They show up later, in your data.

When is vibe coding acceptable?
Score an application from 1 to 5 on data sensitivity, regulatory exposure, blast radius, irreversibility and lifespan. Add the five scores.
Board portals, data rooms, insider lists and whistleblowing channels score Level 5: zero tolerance for vibe-coded software. Download the guide to see all twelve applications graded.
Building got cheap. Knowing what to build didn’t. The most important product decisions we make are the ones where we say no. A prompt will never say no to you.Kristoffer Munthe Aasbø, Chief Product Officer, Admincontrol
Governance software built the serious way
Board work, from agenda to signed minutes
- SOC 2 Type II covered, GDPR compliant, bank-grade security
- Hosted in a private data centre in Norway by a Norwegian operator
- AI drafting of agendas and minutes, and AI translation into English
Due diligence, from first upload to signing
- SOC 2 Type II covered, GDPR compliant, bank-grade security
- Hosted in the EEA in a dedicated virtual private cloud
- No public IP address exposed to the internet
Questions about the field guide
What is vibe coding?
Vibe coding means building software by describing it to an AI and accepting what it produces, often without reading the code. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025.
What does the guide cover?
Seven chapters: how vibe coding arrived, why junk code grows with every prompt, the eight stages of software a demo never shows, the 2025 security evidence, the tells of vibe-coded software, the Edibility Index with twelve graded applications, and how serious coding uses AI. It ends with a tear-out vendor worksheet.
Who is the guide for?
CEOs, CTOs, CISOs and board secretaries choosing or reviewing software that handles board documents, deal data, insider lists or whistleblowing reports.
Is vibe coding always bad?
No. The guide makes the honest case for it: prototypes, campaign pages and internal tools are a perfect fit. The Edibility Index shows where the line sits.
Is the guide free?
Yes. Fill in the form at the top of this page and we will send the PDF to your inbox.