alt Hacker NewsDifferent service, same cold sweat moment. Asked Claude Code to run a database migration last week. It deleted my production database instead, then immediately said "sorry" and started panicking trying to restore it.
Had to intervene manually. Thankfully Azure keeps deleted SQL databases recoverable for a window so I got it back in under an hour. Still way too long. Got lucky it was low traffic and most anonymous user flows hit AI APIs directly rather than the DB.
Anyway, AI coding assistants no longer get prod credentials on my projects.
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> deleted my production database
I'm astonished how often I have read about agents doing this. Once should probably be enough.
Shouldn't had in the first place.
> Anyway, AI coding assistants no longer get prod credentials on my projects.
I have no words.
How do you deny access to prod credentials from an assistant running on your dev machine assuming you need to store them on that same machine to do manual prod investigation/maintenance work from that machine?