What is the main risk of vibe coding?
Owning a working system nobody understands. It is not usually experienced as bad code; it is experienced as an outage where diagnosis means reading your own codebase for the first time, at the worst possible moment.
From Vibe coding, and the bill that arrives later, published 9 August 2026. That article is where the reasoning behind this answer is set out, including what it does not cover.