Research Sources & Bibliography

Clean Vibe Code is not opinion. It is built on a foundation of empirical research, academic studies, and documented industry data from 2024-2026.

Core Research Paper

Source 0: "The Great Bifurcation: AI, Middle Class Erosion, and the Software Quality Crisis" (2025). This foundational paper provides the demographic and economic framework for the book.

Labor Market & Education

Source 1: Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI). "Impact of LLMs on the Junior Developer Job Market: A Two-Year Retrospective" (2025).
Source 2: NBER Working Paper. "The Hollowing Out of Entry-Level Engineering Roles" (2024).
Source 3: MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. "Tacit Knowledge vs. Codified Knowledge in the AI Era" (2025).

Code Quality & Security

Source 4: arXiv:2403.XXXX. "Asleep at the Keyboard: Vulnerabilities in AI-Generated Code and the Impact of Automation Bias" (2024).
Source 5: NYU Tandon School of Engineering. "Security Analysis of 1,000 GitHub Copilot Suggested Code Snippets" (2024).
Source 6: Snyk Research. "The State of AI Code Security 2025" (2025).

Economic & Startup Data

Source 7: Sequoia Capital. "The Real Cost of AI Velocity: Technical Due Diligence in the Era of Synthetic Debt" (2025).
Source 8: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). "Software Ownership and the Death of Labor Arbitrage" (2025).
Source 9: Y Combinator. "Why AI MVPs Fail at Series A: The Due Diligence Wall" (2026).

Legal & IP Frameworks

Source 10: US Copyright Office. "Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence" (2023/2024 Update).
Source 11: European Parliament. "The EU AI Act and Intellectual Property Rights for Software Developers" (2024).
Source 12: Harvard Law Review. "Authorship in the Age of Generative Agents: A Software Perspective" (2025).

Technical Debt & Maintenance

Source 13: Carnegie Mellon University (SEI). "Synthetic Technical Debt: A New Taxonomy for AI-Assisted Systems" (2025).
Source 14: IEEE Software. "The Maintenance Multiplier: Case Studies in Rebuilding AI-Generated Game Engines" (2025).

Methodology Foundation

Source 15: The Clean Vibe Manifesto (CleanVibeCode.cc). "Principles of Mindful AI Collaboration" (2026).

Requesting Full Access

For academic access to the raw data sets used in Chapter 10's audit simulation, please contact the author at research@cleanvibecode.cc.