Your Vibe Coding Security Scanner Is Missing the Worst Bugs. Here's Why.

there are like 8+ security scanners for vibe-coded apps now. a year ago there were zero. we went from "just ship it and pray" to having actual tools. love to see it. but here's the thing nobody's talking about: these tools don't all scan the same stuff. and the difference between them decides whether you catch the bugs that actually get you hacked or just the surface-level ones. I built one of these scanners (ShipSafe) and I've been testing the others too. the split is simple: does it scan your deployed URL or your actual source code? that one question changes everything. the two flavors URL scanners hit your live site from the outside. they catch missing headers, exposed endpoints, leaked keys in your JS bundle, SSL issues. real stuff. useful. repo scanners read your actual code. they look at auth logic, database queries, how secrets are handled on the server. different game entirely. most people assume these overlap more than they do. they don't. like, at all. three bugs URL scanners