alt Hacker NewsThis is why you don’t hire interns! They can delete things and cause havoc!
The same people who would blame AI for their failing to properly configure permissions would also blame interns for deleting production whatever.
Blame should go up, praise should go down. People always invert these.
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Yeah, I don't know why anyone would open up a codebase with any prod credentials with an LLM or give prod credentials to an intern / junior developer. I always intentionally had a "PROD" only checkout of my projects so I knew if I was going to try and run it in a PROD mode, that I was going out of my way, there even used to be a VS extension that would change the color of VS completely based on your SLN file path, so I could easily remember which color for VS was for production vs development. I'd have basically a copy that would always be on the latest of the master branch for ease of confirmation.
> This is why you don’t hire interns!
I’d like to rephrase this as: this is why you don’t give interns permissions to delete your prod database.
This is a process failure, not an AI failure.
I honestly don’t understand why people blame AI here, when you literally gave AI permissions to do exactly this.
It’s like blaming AWS for exposing some database to the public. That’s just not AWS’ fault. Neither is this the fault of AI.