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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base
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I'm pretty sure everyone at my job trust me and I (or anyone else for that matter) don't have enough access to wipeout a production DB on my own.
Why in frelling hell would they give full access to production to a LLM agent?
This is why vibe coding is a joke. It's also a great example of why education should be valued and why documentation/standards exist.
The company that lost their database was comfortable with using a high-risk process, whilst having garbage standards in place. Jokes on them.
Vibe coding is the refuge of the incompetent, and has enough shock and awe to part fools with their money .
While I am biased, having coded too many lines, over the years, for my own good; I believe it is a healthy bias grounded in experience
yeah i don’t even know if this needs an apology. it’s almost as if Replit had previously recommended running their bot against production resources. honestly, if a company was like “oops we accidentally wiped your data cuz middle management wanted to LARP as engineering” that’s a blessing in disguise. i hope they lose all my data.