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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, May 26. I'm Isabel Biscett for the Wall Street Journal. Some AI experts say a crisis is coming, thanks to a deluge of bad and potentially even dangerous AI-generated software.

We're unpacking how this so-called vibe-slop is being used and what could be at stake.

Then, the chip powering your brand new mathbook might have a defect or two.

But that's the point. We'll break down the Apple strategy

helping the company solve cheaper laptops without sacrificing profits. But first, AI coding tools

have made it easier than ever to generate huge amounts of software with barely any overhead.

But now, some top AI engineers are warning that a reckoning is coming.

They say that this code, which they call vibe slop, is buggy, risky, and won't hold up for the long haul.

The bottom line is that many companies could be trading short-term productivity, and won't hold up for the long haul. The bottom line is that many companies could be

trading short-term productivity for long-term problems, like service outages and security vulnerabilities.

WSJ Tech columnist Christopher Mims joins us to talk about how we got here, whether AI itself is a

potential solution,

and what it all means for the workforce.

Are there any benefits to accelerating code development at this kind of extreme pace?

There are really big benefits when AI agents are applied to coding in the right context.

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