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Tech bros having their production environments nuked by AI is never gonna get old (suppo.fi)
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[–] anniewang2007a@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every single one of these companies use git and can roll back changes. It's extremely unlikely that this damage is permanent.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hopefully they're not storing their production database in git lol. They should be taking backups of the database, but unless they're making one after every transaction, permanent data loss is a real possibility.

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

Let's be honest, you have to be extremely careless to have agents running destructive commands freely in prod