Why AI Startups Are Speedrunning Security Breaches and Outages?

Expect an upcoming wave of hacked accounts, stolen data, and outages by indie services launched with Cursor, Lovable, Windsurf with no engineering supervision.

The AI hype is so massive because there’s A LOT at stake for businesses raising billions of dollars.

That’s why AGI is both boasted and postponed, and all demo videos look incredible up until you test the software and it crashes (or produces 7 fingers and 2 heads on a video).

Respected people in my ecosystem preach “vibe coding” while the fastest-growing European startup produced several of these flaky apps exposing API keys and parameters all over the place.

It’s not a tooling problem; it’s the expectation that production apps are just bundled together and scalability, performance, speed, security just invent themselves out of nowhere.

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Mario Peshev is a 5x CEO and operator, founder of DevriX and Growth Shuttle, global value creation advisor, angel investor, and author of “MBA Disrupted.”

His original background in engineering rode the wave of IT entrepreneurship in the last 25 years, from product and service entrepreneurship through acquiring and selling businesses, to investing in global startups like beehiiv, doola, the Stacked Marketer, Alcatraz, SeedBlink.

Peshev spent over 10,000 hours in consulting and training contracts for mid-market and enterprise organizations like VMware, SAP, Software AG, CERN, Saudi Aramco since 2006. His books and guides are referenced in over 50 universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.


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