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Na this is vide ops. Anyone who thought a coding machine could do ops probably assumes anyone who codes can also do ops. It's going to be making the same mistakes that have happened in DevOps.

It's because these idiots believe their own bullshit.

He did have a backup. This is why you use cloud storage.

The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.

AI or not, I feel like everybody has had "the incident" at some point. After that, you obsessively keep backups.

For me it was a my entire "Junior Project" in college, which was a music album. My windows install (Vista at that time - I know, vista was awful, but it was the only thing that would utilize all 8gb of my RAM because x64 XP wasn't really a thing) bombed out, and I was like "no biggie, I keep my OS on one drive and all of my projects on the other, I'll just reformat and reinstall Windows"

Well... I had two identical 250gb drives and formatted the wrong one.

Woof.

I bought an unformat tool that was able to recover mostly everything, but I lost all of my folder structure and file names. It was just like 000001.wav, 000002.wav etc. I was able to re-record and rebuild but man... Never made that mistake again. Like I said. I now obsessively backup. Stacks of drives, cloud storage. Drives in divverent locations etc.

Naw, Alexey Grigorev is a real person, with a GiHub and everything, and he wrote a blog post about this very incident. The person writing the article just fucked up the name.

I'm surprised that you jumped to that conclusion without doing a 5-minute web search.

holy shit your right lol...good catch.

Makes me want to get out more so I can have real interaction with real peop-

sees people walking around with meta glasses

me: "Hey hows it going?"

person(GEMINI 35.84 INTERFACE): "Human is approaching you, facescan assumes awkward, potentially hostile, he isn't tagged, there is no name above his head. do not speak with him"

person: turns and walks away silently in a creepy puppet manner

me: "What the actual fuck?"

GEMINI 35.84: "Uploading unknown face into database to Stargate for analysis, no match, law enforcement has been called"

News at 11: "A man has been incinerated by law enforcement in what officials are describing as a special unwanted persons removal operation"

this shit could become real in a few decades. funny and depressing as fuck.

Version control doesn't do shit for your database. Snapshots/backups.

The problem is this is the way it’s being pushed. This is how it’s being sold. There are no guardrails.

….. and that’s the biggest problem. I’m frustrated as hell on the commits I’ve had to unwind because someone doesn’t know how to check the changes before committing, then has it try to fix itself, again without checking on the changes , then again. It’s horrible.

….. and I’ve seen it too. Trying to have it do only code reviews - the ai points out useful things but then wants to commit a crapload of changes without going over it with me first.

…… and people are playing with mcp agents, which are really great for letting the ai get data from systems and integrate with those systems . But with few to no guardrails. There’s no no review, the user doesn’t necessarily follow what’s changing, it just gets done. Sometime badly very badly

We’re all focused on whether the ai works, and it does do a pretty good job with coding but the tools don’t keep the human in the loop, or humans don’t know how to stay on the loop

Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who'd put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I'd lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. "Unlikely. Relax."

After I moved on... an ex co-worker who's still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

The friggin' carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah

AND something tested to restore successfully, otherwise it's just unknown data that might or might not work.

(i.e. reinforcing your point, no disagreements)

3-2-1 Backup Rule: Three copies of data at two different types of storage media, with 1 copy offsite