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There was that article a few months ago about an AI code assistant deleting a company's production database: https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-repli
by kemayo 1y ago
There was that article a few months ago about an AI code assistant deleting a company's production database: https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-database-called-it-a-catastrophic-failure/ https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-d...
There's layers here, of course:
1. The founder shot themselves in the foot by not understanding an AI tool couldn't be trusted, so clearly they really were that oblivious.
2. ...the founder had direct production access hooked up to their regular coding environment. They were always going to shoot themselves in the foot eventually.
- askl 1y agoThat's a really heartwarming story. Thanks.
- Aurornis 1y ago> There was that article a few months ago about an AI code assistant deleting a company's production database That wasn’t a company. It was a vibe coding experiment. It didn’t have any actual customers. It did delete the database marked “production” though. If it had been deployed it would have been a problem. It was just an experiment, though.