@Fenng: I just started using Vercel the other day and it got hacked. In the AI era you can’t catch a break—one flaky dev can sink the whole company. Same story from Claude to Vercel.
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A short social post claims Vercel was hacked soon after the author began using it, blaming a rogue developer and likening it to past Claude incidents.
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I’d just started using Vercel when the other side got hacked—AI era, nothing’s ever simple. One careless programmer can sink the whole company. From Claude to Vercel, it’s the same story on repeat.
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