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Tech bros having their production environments nuked by AI is never gonna get old (suppo.fi)
submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] anniewang2007a@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every single one of these companies use git and can roll back changes. It's extremely unlikely that this damage is permanent.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hopefully they're not storing their production database in git lol. They should be taking backups of the database, but unless they're making one after every transaction, permanent data loss is a real possibility.

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago

Let's be honest, you have to be extremely careless to have agents running destructive commands freely in prod