The lesson: AI cannot bridge an air-gapped backup. This could all be prevented with a crappy portable hard drive from costco.
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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lol, lmao even
The real reason I hate using LLMs is because I have to "think" like a social human non software engineer.
For whatever fucking reason, I just can't get these things to be useful. And then I see idiots connecting an LLM to production like this.
Is that the problem? I literally can't turn my brain off. The only other nearly universal group of people that seems opposed to LLMs are psychologists and social workers who seem to be universally concerned about its negative effects on mental health and it's encouragement of abandoning critical thinking.
Like I can't NOT think through a problem. I already know more about my software than the AI could actually figure out. Anytime I go into GitHub Copilot and say "I want this feature" I get some code and the option to apply it. But the generated code is usually duplicate of something and doesn't usually pick up or update existing models. The security flaws are rampant, and the generated tests don't do much of any real testing.
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That's it Son of Anton is banned.
: You had a backup, right?
Whenever you outsource something (like your intelligence) then it becomes a trust issue....
Terraform state is a garbage hack I feel. You have your plan in code. You have a target. Just diff it. Thats what helmfile do. No managing state file. Thats what iac should be. Just code. Deterministic. Diff before applying it.
Oh no, anyways
git clone $URL
If they're not using git or fuckin backups I'm not sure I'd even feel sorry for them
This is a crazy use of AI!
What I have been considering, but haven't found a readily available setup yet: Make a user with lots of read permissions (most of /etc, API keys & passwords in separate excluded files). That could be done with very restrictive sudo patterns. Let the AI run commands under that user directly (it can do sudo -l to get an idea of what it can do). Then, use it like in Star Trek "Computer - run a level 2 diagnostic".
Not as the centre of attention when fixing a problem, but as additional input / modern rubber ducking.
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Has anyone tried a deltree *.* /y when talking to claude? Revenge is a dish best served code.
Ai or not. This is on the person who gave it prod access. I don’t care if the dev was running CC in yolo mode, not paying attention to it or CC went completely rogue. Why would you give it prod access, this is human error.