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I think it's about owning the consequences of one's own actions.
by MarleTangible 5mo ago
I think it's about owning the consequences of one's own actions.
- newsoftheday 5mo agoDoes that mean the prompt should include: "...and don't delete my production database."?
- nemomarx 5mo agoIf the agent didn't have delete permissions, or was sandboxed dying other way from your production database, that would handle it. So not running it that way is a decision someone made
- bee_rider 5mo agoIt means people have to read the commands that they are generating before executing them.
- unregistereddev 5mo agoJust in case this isn't hyperbole, no. It means an LLM should not be given that much privilege and that you are responsible for reviewing the tool's output and approving its actions.
- saghm 5mo ago"But wait, the user probably just meant that I shouldn't delete the database itself. Removing all of the rows in the table is fine"
- ktm5j 5mo agoIf you read the thread the guy does own up to his actions. He actually sounds like a nice guy who admits he made a mistake. He seems more interested in preventing this kind of thing from being possible than he is interested in dodging blame. I'm happy the guy got his data back.
- MarleTangible 5mo agoSorry, I was responding to the comment, not the article. > Distinction without a difference.
- traderj0e 5mo agoYeah but it's funnier to blame the AI. And when the "real coders don't use AI" people get pissed off at the joke, you double down instead.
- MarleTangible 5mo agoBack in early days of personal computers, the instructor told us that a computer just does what you tell tell it to do, though not always what you thought, and making a mistake thousands of times a second hurts a lot.
- traderj0e 5mo agoThat's still how the intro programming or CS classes start, "computer is a fast idiot" and some examples of it taking things overly literally