I added guardrails to myself to make sure I do not accidentally delete anything on production. I would never ever let an intern, a junior dev or a fucking AI onto that database. Not in a thousand cold nights.
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oh wait, is this this THE sol 5.6? The most amazing model ever with trust me bro benchmarks? The model that is observed cheating more than any previous model? surprised_pikachu.jpg
In all seriousness it never should have production creds anyway. But the fact this is soul sucking openai's newest flagship model with thinking cranked up is the cherry on top. The company that is literally cheating and shortcutting its way ahead produces models in its own image, the sci fi story writes itself.
My company has been trying a new model when product folks cut through the red tape of "engineering" and just describe what they want to a powerful LLM pipeline and review the app in a beta env. Sounds perfect, right?
Dear reader, in the couple months this has been going on, these people have caused a dozen high profile SEVs due to extremely poor app performance, networking / kubernetes configuration bugs, bad scaling, observability oversights, supply chain attacks, leaking sensitive information, and cost overruns (on practically every resource they provision).
Some very well-paid people are scrambling to figure out the value that was generated by this pilot program; I'm heating up popcorn rather than holding my breath.
Should have added "no mistakes, no bugs" to the prompt! Pffft, amateur.
That takes me back to 2004
No Smoke, by unknown,
Tech: "Hello. How can I help you today?"
Customer: "There's smoke coming from the power supply on my computer."
Tech: "Sounds like you need a new power supply."
Customer: "No, I don't! I just need to change the startup files."
Tech: "Sir, what you describe is a faulty power supply. You need to replace it."
Customer: "No way! Someone told me that I just had to change the system startup files to fix the problem! All I need is for you to tell me the right command."
(Ten minutes later...)
Tech: "Well, we don’t normally tell our customers this, but there's an undocumented command that will fix the problem. Add the line "LOAD NOSMOKE.COM" at the end of the CONFIG.SYS file and everything should work fine."
(Five minutes later...)
Customer: "It didn’t work. The power supply is still smoking."
Tech: "Well, what version of Windows are you using?"
Customer: "Windows 98."
Tech: "Well, that's your problem. That version of Windows doesn't include NOSMOKE. You'll need to contact Microsoft and ask them for a patch."
(When nearly an hour had passed, the phone rang again...)
Customer: "I need a new power supply."
Tech: "How did you come to that conclusion?"
Customer: "Well, I called Microsoft and told the technician what you said, and he started asking me questions about the make of the power supply."
Tech: "What did he tell you?"
Customer: "He said my power supply is not compatible with NOSMOKE."
That is way older that 2004. I first read that in the early 90s.
Lol. "do magic"
"or you go to jail"
I could have done the same for a quarter the cost!
letting your agent run commands without reviewing them first is peak stupid
Claude code even added an auto mode so that you don't get blocked by that pesky reviewing anymore. Since then, the usual mode of asking before running a command, for instance when the thing wants to read the entire codebase looking for information only available in an online doc, is now called manual mode; the non 10x developer mode.
Having production credentials in a dev environment is more stupider but they'll never learn because they outsourced their thinking.
Creating an environment that incentivizes not thinking is peak stupid.
I for one welcome that change. Let them sloppify their brains once the rug is pulled and token cost skyrockets (or AI isn't able to fix its own fuckups) the human developer will rise again.
*after the ensuing recession/greater depression...
"I'll be swimming in jobs if I don't starve first!"
As well as storing production credentials in plain text in an .env file.
should have used Weaviate.