AI-Powered Apps Rise, Security Risks Loom

Generative AI enables non-technical founders to build consumer apps in hours ("Vibe Coding"), driving Google Play Store growth to 1.878m apps; however, 62% of AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities—2.74x higher than human-written code—with recent breaches of Lovable and Moltbook exposing authentication data and personal information. If you're building a Vibe Coding platform or selling to non-technical app builders, your customers' code is a liability—62% contains exploitable flaws, and the first breach of a platform user's app will name you in the lawsuit. Security auditing and automated vulnerability patching for AI-generated code is now a market.