5 Mistakes Beginners Make When Vibe Coding (And How to Avoid Them)

Key Takeaways One-shotting prompts without a spec is the most common failure mode: experienced devs were 19% slower with AI tools when the task wasn't clearly scoped (METR 2025) AI-coauthored code is 1.75× more likely to introduce correctness errors and 2.74× more likely to ship XSS vulnerabilities