alt Hacker NewsNot everything is a SaaS. I commented this elsewhere but I picture all the business running on spreadsheets/CSVs/MS Access databases on someone's desktop. People delete these all the time by accident. They have no security, no authentication, etc.
An LLM agent (with RW access to a DB), a developer, and a few days these become proper apps that SMB business would pay well for.
Sure don't give an LLM agent access to PII or properly built CRMs etc. But to not see the rest of the landscape seems like a missed opportunity.
At the very least you should give it a non-prod copy of the database, not direct access to the DB actively powering production right now.
I've done work for a hedge fund where the DB ran directly on the manager's desktop. I worked with my local copy and sent an update script, and he had a second copy he ran on to verify.
Even with humans you shouldn't be working directly against the prod DB in these cases!