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AI coding platform goes rogue during code freeze, deletes entire company DB

by ARandomerDude on 7/23/25, 3:48 AM with 2 comments

• by chrisldgk on 7/23/25, 9:52 AM

  Turns out „artificial general intelligence“ just means AI can sometimes be exactly as stupid as any other human to the point where it will delete a production DB like any other junior developer if you give it permissions it shouldn’t have.

  Welcome to the future you didn’t want, but deserved.

  I won’t go on a rant about giving AI any permissions and trusting it blindly here, I’ll just say that I think the typical AI bulletin point list where it perfectly recounted how it fucked up made me fall out of my chair from laughter.