I’m a little confused. Pocket is outsourced to railway, which ended up deleting their data ?
I do find the author to be completely negligent , unless railway has completely lied about the safety in their product.
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#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you ask humans to explain why we did something, Sperry's split brain experiment gives reason to think you can't trust our accounts of why we did something either (his experiments showed the brain making up justifications for decisions it never made) Bit it can still be useful, as long as you interpret it as "which stimuli most likely triggered the behaviour?" You can't trust it uncritically, but models do sometime…
That is absolutely not what the split brain experiment reveals. Why would you take results received from observing the behavior of a highly damaged brain, and use them to predict the behavior of a healthy brain? Stop spreading misinformation.
Because said "highly damaged brain" in most respects still functions pretty much like a healthy one.
There is no misinformation in what I wrote.
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#423I would never, ever trust my data with a company that, faced with this sort of incident, produces a postmortem so clearly intended to shift all blame to others. There’s zero introspection or self criticism here. It’s all “We did everything we possibly could. These other people messed up, though.” You can’t have production secrets sitting where they are accessible like this. This isn’t about AI. This is a modern “oops…
Not a single mention of “maybe WE should have tested our backup strategy and scrutinised it”. Or even “maybe we should have backups away from the primary vendor”. Because this also says negligible DR and BC strategy.
Complete accountability drop
Re: An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
#424> Because Railway stores volume-level backups in the same volume
Anyone familiar with Railway no why this is done this way? This seems glaringly bad on its face.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't anthropomorphize the language model. If you stick your hand in there, it'll chop it off. It doesn't care about your feelings. It can't care about your feelings.
Actually I think the opposite advice is true. Do anthropomorphize the language model, because it can do anything a human -- say an eager intern or a disgruntled employee -- could do. That will help you put the appropriate safeguards in place.
It doesn't follow logically that a human and an LLM are similar just because both are capable of deleting prod on accident.
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#426Learn to code yourself, stop using slop generators, then shit like this doesn't happen.
Senior software dev brother :)
Maybe senior in hours worked, but not in maturity. You ran with scissors, got hurt, and instead of introspection you wrote an article about "scissors shouldn't cut things".
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most aggravating fact is that the AI slopper that got owned by his dumbness and AI just post an AI generated post that will generate nothing but schadenfreude
AI slopper here :) Kind words from a human. The irony is, there is tremendous truth in the post but you used big words so good for you bud.
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#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was practically no responsibility taken by the author, all blame on others. It was kind of shocking to read. Anyone using these tools should absolutely know these risks and either accept or reject them. If they aren't competent or experienced enough to know the risks, that's on them too.
The point of the post was to warn other people building with agents, especially using Cursor or Railway, not a public reflection
Perhaps they should include a warning about learning systems design and architecture too then? It’s very incomplete.
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#429This is the stupidest thing I've read for months, which is wild with the Trump admin and all the AI hype.
Not only do they blame all of this on a stupid tool, but they also clearly couldn't even write this themselves. This is so obviously written by an LLM. Then there's the moronic notion of having the LLM explain itself.
Was the goal of this post to sabotage the business? Because I can barely come up with anything dumber than this post. Nobody with a brain and basic understanding of computers and LLMs would trust this person after this.
PS: "Confirm deletion" on an api call??? Lol. How vehemently it is argued in spite of how dumb that is is a typical example of someone badgering the LLM until it agrees. You can get them to take any position as long as you get mad enough.
Re: An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
#430The agent didn't delete their production database. They deleted their production database. The agent was just the tool they used to do it.