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whartungyesterday at 10:20 PM1 replyview on HN

It's also moot.

If the API replied "Are you sure (Y/N)?" the AI, in the mode it was in, guardrails completely pushed off the side of the road, it would have just said "Yes" anyway.

If you needed to make two API calls, one to stage the delete and the other to execute it (i.e. the "commit" phase), the AI would have looked up what it needed to do, and done that instead.

It's a privilege issue, not an execution issue.


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kokadayesterday at 10:58 PM

Exactly, that just reinforces the fact that the author is just blaming others instead of getting any valuable insights about this "postmortem analysis".