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Posted by Brajeshwar 5 days ago

AI didn't delete your database, you did(idiallo.com)
544 points | 302 commentspage 6
giannicmptr1000 4 days ago|
agree with the title, but who reads articles nowadays? - titles and comments are the life for me
jacktu 5 days ago||
When I was setting up the generation pipeline for my own AI project, I had to hardcode strict.
hoistbypetard 5 days ago||
> Automation helps eliminate the silly mistakes that come with manual, repetitive work.

Sometimes it does that. And sometimes it lets you fuck things up at scale.

hengar 5 days ago||
Did you read the article? It called the Railway API to delete. The user did not add a production endpoint to delete their db
gowld 5 days ago||
Distinction without a difference.
MarleTangible 5 days ago|
I think it's about owning the consequences of one's own actions.
ktm5j 5 days ago|||
If you read the thread the guy does own up to his actions. He actually sounds like a nice guy who admits he made a mistake. He seems more interested in preventing this kind of thing from being possible than he is interested in dodging blame.

I'm happy the guy got his data back.

MarleTangible 4 days ago||
Sorry, I was responding to the comment, not the article.

> Distinction without a difference.

traderj0e 5 days ago||||
Yeah but it's funnier to blame the AI. And when the "real coders don't use AI" people get pissed off at the joke, you double down instead.
MarleTangible 4 days ago||
Back in early days of personal computers, the instructor told us that a computer just does what you tell tell it to do, though not always what you thought, and making a mistake thousands of times a second hurts a lot.
traderj0e 4 days ago||
That's still how the intro programming or CS classes start, "computer is a fast idiot" and some examples of it taking things overly literally
newsoftheday 5 days ago|||
Does that mean the prompt should include: "...and don't delete my production database."?
nemomarx 5 days ago|||
If the agent didn't have delete permissions, or was sandboxed dying other way from your production database, that would handle it. So not running it that way is a decision someone made
bee_rider 5 days ago||||
It means people have to read the commands that they are generating before executing them.
unregistereddev 5 days ago||||
Just in case this isn't hyperbole, no. It means an LLM should not be given that much privilege and that you are responsible for reviewing the tool's output and approving its actions.
saghm 5 days ago|||
"But wait, the user probably just meant that I shouldn't delete the database itself. Removing all of the rows in the table is fine"
gigel82 5 days ago||
"If those kids could read they'd be very upset"
proxysna 5 days ago||
“Expert” that does not know what a Terraform is. lol, lmao even
1970-01-01 4 days ago||
"Smoking didn't give you cancer, you did."
KingOfCoders 4 days ago||
"Dog ate my homework"
nimbius 5 days ago|
anyone with twenty years of devops experience is likely to abhor Diallo's hot take and for good reason.

AI is being sold as a developer, as it is being sold as the do-everything alternative to traditional processes and methods. it is not being sold as an intern or a junior, but a real developer.

turning the tables and gaslighting devops professionals into believing the issue isnt an emerging technology with overwhelmingly heavy handed marketing and profitless operating strategy thats been shoehorned into seemingly everything and promises anything, but somehow their own oversight, will destroy whatever "vibe code" market you think you have at the cusp of a global recession.

had this AI been a real programmer chances are great they would have (intelligently) foreseen the possibility of damaging a production environment and asked for help.

to play devils advocate: you could hire a junior dev for a fourth of whatever the AI token spend is, and have likely avoided this issue entirely. sure, a greybeard is going to need to pull themselves away from some fierce sorting algorithm challenge for a second to give a wisened nod, but you would have saved yourself an inexorable amount of headache and profit loss in the longer run.

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