Vibecoding is the future

no factor authentication

You're absolutely right! It doesn't make sense to show the user the 2fa code! removes 2fa completely

Oh, I get it! You still want 2fa, you just don't want the code to be shown! colors the text white
- No, no, make it ultra secure and display none it, every website will be a database of important information, you just have to put everything into a hidden table!!
- Oh you want the code not rendered into html!
  Drops the code in javascript when it is received from the backend.
- Imagine breaking someone's scraper with that change.

They were called scriptkiddies back in the day

At least they had real intelligence, doing stuff like this is basically so stupid you'd be clinically braindead
Has the general discourse settled on a proper epithet for this new version?
"vibe coders" doesn't feel derogatory enough.
- Agreed, they're getting off light. I've worked with people who felt the code, but werent always able to communicate their ideas. I'd say theyd fit the idea of vibe coding without ai.
  The concept is taken, and doesn't describe the intent well. How about "pseudocoders".
- "vibe coding" was supposed to be derogatory?

I will be honest, it took me a good while to figure out what's wrong

Me too, but I woke up.... Checks watch .... 25 minutes ago, and I'm still pretty out of it.
Same. And I came here to comment exactly that.
- I figured it out immediately. I came here to say that.

It took me way too long to figure out what was wrong with this screenshot

Yeah, same here. I was counting the boxes thinking they'd got the wrong amount of numbers.
- I counted the boxes 3 times. :(
I need help. I don’t get it…
- The "secret" code sent to your phone is spelled out in the text
- No point sending the code to your phone when it's displayed right there. The idea of doing this is making sure nobody has stolen your password, because they still need access to your phone before they can access your account.

i'm ashamed to say that took me a while to figure out what was wrong mostly because i didn't think someone would be that dumb.

That's up there with: "You cannot use this password, it's already in use by ... "

But that's so practical. Maybe I can contact them and ask them if we can swap. Haha

SMS/email-based 2FA should die.

Luckily, you don't even need to check SMS or input a valid number with the “verification” in the screenshot!
- mission failed successfully
It’s better than nothing and some people would really struggle to do other types of 2FA.
- I'll be homest with you, some people really struggle with email 2fa. The amount of working Americans I have spoken with who don't understand how to have two tabs open at once is genuinely frightening.
- As a reset method it's worse than having nothing
It's wild how standard SMS is given how (relatively) trivial it is to exploit.
- Even with autofilling it on iOS, macOS you still have developers that need to fuck with form fields using JavaScript because they think they’re smarter than you.
What's the best alternative?
- App based 2FA is better. Either the app generates a time based code that you enter into the site or the site sends a push notification to the app asking you to verify the login attempt.
  Passkeys are good too as they replace the password completely and leave the 2FA part to the device.
- TOTP, FIDO2 or not worrying about logins and just using {GitHub,Google,Microsoft,selfhosted.lan} as identity provider with OIDC

This could be vibe coding, or just an intern "doing the web site".

Neither should have write access to production code.

I feel like I saw this or the same thing on a different screenshot before AI, I'm not sure whether it's deliberately crafted bad security thing or legit bad from the wild
I don't think it's the result of vibe coding
i mean either one of those fucked up but it's also on the qa/testing team and the deployment team that they let it GET to production.
- O saved the ass of the company I worked for at software QA multiple times 🤭
  Most of the time, it was just miscommunication between decision makers and devs and I had to explain to both why it is not working how it is now and that none of them is clearly to blame for the situation.
  I still work for that company, but manage IT infrastructure now, but I am confident that my successor will still do good job, than unlike me, he has a proper education in programming, 😂 I was literally in vibe code state
  (Thank you AI)
- You mean the QA teams a lot of companies laid off because management decided the developers (and now AI) can just write all the automated tests?
- If they have one.

Assuming this is real, how the fuck do you fuck up so badly?

What!? It's more user friendly this way. No need to make the user switch to a totally different device when you can tell them right here!
/s
(I hate pointing out sarcasm, but it's better not to risk it these days.)
- (you don't need to apologise for using tone tags, they're a useful accessibility tool and hurt nobody)
When I first added 2fa to page, I had a bug and made it do that to compare the values.
production or test, it's likely debug code.
New intern