alt Hacker NewsWell the user chose the tool. The tool is an LLM. LLMs are non deterministic. You can not predict what comes out ouf an LLM for a given input, especially without weights. This should be known.
There is currently no way to prevent this apart from not giving the LLM full control. It will not delete what it can not delete.
Use an LLM to write an ansible playbook or some terraform code if you want, but review it, test it, apply it. Keep backups (3-2-1 rule at minimum).
Letting an LLM have access to everything is just a bad idea and will lead to bad outcomes. You can not replace a person with a mind and experience with an LLM. You can try. But you will probably fail.
> There is currently no way to prevent this apart from not giving the LLM full control. It will not delete what it can not delete.
But deleting something is just one action you might not want it to take.
The recent "agentic" craze is fueled by the narrative pushed by companies and influencers alike that the more access given to an LLM, the more useful it becomes. I think this is ludicrous for the same reasons as you, but it is evident that most people agree with this.
We can blame users for misusing the tools, and suggest that sandboxing is the way to go, but at the end of the day most people will favor convenience over anything else a reasonable person might find important.
So at what point should we start blaming the tools, and forcing "AI" companies to fix them? I certainly hope this is done before something truly catastrophic happens.