I Scanned Hundreds of AI-Generated Codebases. Here's What Keeps Showing Up.

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

I Scanned Hundreds of AI-Generated Codebases. Here's What Keeps Showing Up. There's a moment every vibe coder knows. You've been building for six hours straight. Cursor has been finishing your sentences. The app actually works, you can click through it, the data saves, the auth flow runs. You push to production feeling like you've unlocked a cheat code for software development. Then a user emails you. Or worse, they don't. They just leave. I've spent the last several months doing something most developers skip: scanning AI-generated codebases before they ship. Not after. Before.