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Re: An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

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There is something darkly comical about using an LLM to write up your “a coding agent deleted our production database” Twitter post.

On another note, I consider users asking a coding agent “why did you do that” to be illustrating a misunderstanding in the users mind about how the agent works. It doesn’t decide to do something and then do it, it just outputs text. Then again, anthropic has made so many changes that make it harder to see the context and thinking steps, maybe this is an attempt at clawing back that visibility.

Re: An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

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Someone trusted prod database to an llm and db got deleted. This person should never be trusted with computers ever again for being illiterate

What makes you say that? The article is pretty clear that they had the llm working in a staging environment, then it decided to use some other creds it found which (unbeknownst to the author) had broad access to their prod environment.
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