The vibe coding risks most developers ignore became impossible to deny on April 19, 2026. That's when Vercel — the platform half the Philippine dev community deploys on — disclosed a security breach . A threat group called ShinyHunters claimed to be selling stolen data for $2 million on BreachForums. The breach didn't come through a firewall exploit. It didn't come through a brute-force attack. It came through an AI tool. A Vercel employee had connected Context.ai, a third-party AI productivity tool, to their Google Workspace. Context.ai got compromised. That compromise cascaded into Vercel's internal systems . Customer environment variables — API keys, tokens, database credentials — were exposed. The intrusion reportedly started in June 2024. It wasn't detected until April 2026. Twenty-two months. That's the reality of building on platforms you don't understand. Vibe Coding Is Real. I Use It. But the Risks Are Not Hypothetical. I'm not here to tell you to stop using AI for coding. I use it every day.…