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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure everyone at my job trust me and I (or anyone else for that matter) don't have enough access to wipeout a production DB on my own.

Why in frelling hell would they give full access to production to a LLM agent?

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

This is why vibe coding is a joke. It's also a great example of why education should be valued and why documentation/standards exist.

The company that lost their database was comfortable with using a high-risk process, whilst having garbage standards in place. Jokes on them.

[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

yeah i don’t even know if this needs an apology. it’s almost as if Replit had previously recommended running their bot against production resources. honestly, if a company was like “oops we accidentally wiped your data cuz middle management wanted to LARP as engineering” that’s a blessing in disguise. i hope they lose all my data.