The developer is to blame. Using a cutting edge tool irresponsibly. I have made mistakes using AI to help coding as well, never this bad though. Blaming AI would be like blaming the hammer a roofer was using to hammer nails and slamming their finger accidentally with it. You don't blame the hammer, you blame the negligence of the roofer.
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Jesus Christ people. Terraform has a plan output option to allow for review prior to an apply. It's trivial to make a script that'll throw the json output into something like terraform visual if you don't like the diff format.
I've fucked up stuff with Terraform, but just once before I switched to a rudimentary script to force a pause, review, and then apply.
Don't worry, review was done by an LLM as well. ;)
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I didn't think the next-token guess machine would guess "delete my database"!
"Please dont be complete shit and ruin everything I give you access to!"
I'm sorry, I'm afraid I cant do that.
If your dumb fucking ass let an ai near your work AND you didn't have any recent backups that it couldnt have access to; you're really extra fucking stupid.
but should serve as a cautionary tale.
Jesus there's a headline like this every month, how many tales people need to learn???
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Oh no, anyways
git clone $URL
If they're not using git or fuckin backups I'm not sure I'd even feel sorry for them
A developer having the ability to accidentally erase your production db is pretty careless.
An AI agent having the ability to "accidentally" erase your production db is fucking stupid as all fuck.
An AI agent having the ability to accidentally erase your production db and somehow also all the backup media? That requires a special course on complete dribbling fuckwittery.
Given that the infrastructure description included the DataTalks.Club website, this resulted in a full wipe of the setup for both sites, including a database with 2.5 years of records, and database snapshots that Grigorev had counted on as backups. The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.
sigh, SNAPSHOTS ARE NOT BACKUPS!
Skill issue
Just a freak accident. Maybe next time, give it more permissions so it can fix any problems that occur. 😉
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But ai is s good thing! /s
AI is like a circular saw. Are circular saws useful?
Of course.
Can you cut your entire hand off if you don’t use it correctly? Absolutely.
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Ever hear of a backup?