Wow, this is an extremely serious vulnerability. People writing it off because it requires MitM. There's always a MitM, the internet is basically a MitM.
What do you even mean by "ChatGPT"? Copy pasting code into chatgpt.com?
AI assisted coding has never been like that, which would be atrocious. The typical workflow was using Cursor with some model of your choice (almost always an Anthropic model like sonnet before opus 4.5 released). Nowadays (in addition to IDEs) it's often a CLI tool like Claude Code with Opus or Codex CLI with GPT Codex 5.2 high/xhigh.
> And you most likely do not pay the actual costs.
This is one of the weakest anti AI postures. "It's a bubble and when free VC money stops you'll be left with nothing". Like it's some kind of mystery how expensive these models are to run.
You have open weight models right now like Kimi K2.5 and GLM 4.7. These are very strong models, only months behind the top labs. And they are not very expensive to run at scale. You can do the math. In fact there are third parties serving these models for profit.
The money pit is training these models (and not that much if you are efficient like chinese models). Once they are trained, they are served with large profit margins compared to the inference cost.
OpenAI and Anthropic are without a doubt selling their API for a lot more than the cost of running the model.
Vibe coding in Unreal Engine is of limited use. It obviously helps with C++, but so much of your time is doing things that are not C++. It hurts a lot that UE relies heavily on blueprints, if they were code you could just vibecode a lot of that.
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