alt Hacker News> If you reach the point where you opened the terminal to do it this way you already lost.
I'm not sure what this means, the model and agent harness is the ones "opening the terminal and running this" (via a exec_shell tool or whatever), they do mistakes like this sometimes. Sometimes the scope is bigger, sometimes less, but anything below SOTA + higher reasoning efforts seems to fall into these mistakes sometimes.
>they do mistakes like this sometimes.
So do I, which is why I don't open the terminal to production database.
>anything below SOTA + higher reasoning efforts seems to fall into these mistakes sometimes.
We figured out how to deal with the human version of this mistake -- add a robust layer with build-in checks between the sloppy meatsack and production data and also make it annoying to access, so it does not become a habit and also requires high reasoning effort.
In my developer environment I can afford this mistake and can afford to delete everything I can touch. For some pieces the recovery will require more effort, but ultimately I can also have my laptop stolen on the way from the office.
On production however it will be a stack of forms to fill, a script with the dry-run and a four-eye rule to approve running it. We will also be able to recover production from the backup as we should. Or at least the company collectively believes so.