Trade Secret Risks in AI-Assisted "Vibe Coding" Development
By
Paul Keller
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Summary
This article examines the legal and security implications of "vibe coding"—a development approach where engineers use AI tools like iterative prompting, conversational workflows, and automated code generation rather than writing code manually. It explores how this shift complicates trade secret protection, software ownership, confidentiality, and litigation risk, as AI-generated code may blend proprietary logic with publicly trained models, making it harder to establish clear provenance and legal protections.
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engineers are no longer writing every line of code manually. Instead, they are building systems through iterative prompting, AI-assisted debugging, conversational development workflows and automated code generation—a phenomenon colloquially referred to as 'vibe coding.'
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