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Tech bros having their production environments nuked by AI is never gonna get old (suppo.fi)
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[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Of course it's better than hard coded, but still pretty bad to store production creds locally in plaintext — if at all.

In the uncommon event that I need production creds, it's a manual human chore by design. Normal development/experimentation should almost never connect to prod environments. That was generally a bad practice long before AI agents existed.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 hour ago

How do you bounce the system? How do you auto restart the service if it fails? At the end of the day, a lot of creds have to essentially be stored in plain text somewhere

And to be clear, to me production creds mean creds that live on the production system, not creds that give access to the production system

The crazier thing here is why was an AI working on or pushing to prod