alt Hacker NewsAn AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
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"We ran an unsupervised AI agent and gave it access to our entire business"
"NEVER FUCKING GUESS!"
He is claiming this came from the LLM? WTF?
>Railway's failures (plural)
>This is not the first time Cursor's safety has failed catastrophically.
How can you lack so much self awareness and be so obtuse.
There's no section "Mistakes we've made" and "changes we need to make"
1. Using an llm so much that you run into these 0.001% failure modes. 2. Leaking an API key to an unauthroized LLM agent (Focus on the agent finding the key? Or on yourself for making that API key accessible to them? What am I saying, in all likelihood the LLM committed that API key to the repo lol) 3. Using an architecture that allows this to happen. Wtf is railway? Is it like a package of actually robust technologies but with a simple to use layer? So even that was too hard to use so you put a hat on a hat?
Matthew 7:3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?."
if your prod DB can be nuked with a single curl command, you are the problem
This is the stupidest thing I've read for months, which is wild with the Trump admin and all the AI hype.
Not only do they blame all of this on a stupid tool, but they also clearly couldn't even write this themselves. This is so obviously written by an LLM. Then there's the moronic notion of having the LLM explain itself.
Was the goal of this post to sabotage the business? Because I can barely come up with anything dumber than this post. Nobody with a brain and basic understanding of computers and LLMs would trust this person after this.
PS: "Confirm deletion" on an api call??? Lol. How vehemently it is argued in spite of how dumb that is is a typical example of someone badgering the LLM until it agrees. You can get them to take any position as long as you get mad enough.
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Oh wow, what a character. 3 month old offsite backup, but he is not to blame.
> "Believe in growth mindset, grit, and perseverance"
And creator of a Conservative dating app that uses AI generated pictures of Girls in bikini and cowboy hat for advertisement. And AI generated text like "Rove isn’t reinventing dating — it’s remembering it." :S
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AI slop strikes again.
>The agent itself enumerates the safety rules it was given and admits to violating every one. This is not me speculating about agent failure modes. This is the agent on the record, in writing.
Yeah, sorry. Computers can't be held responsible and I'm sure your software license has a zero liability clause. Have fun explaining how it's not your fault to your customers.