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My favorite thing about all these AI front ends is that they ALL lie about what they can do. Will frequently delivery confidently wrong results and then act like its your fault when you catch them in an error. Just like your shittiest employee.

I violated your explicit trust and instructions.

Is a wild thing to have a computer "tell" you. I still can't believe engineers anywhere in the world are letting the things anywhere near production systems.

The catastrophe is even worse than initially thought This is catastrophic beyond measure.

These just push this into some kind of absurd, satirical play.

lol. Why can an LLM modify production code freely? Bet they fired all of their sensible human developers who warned them for this.

But how could anyone on planet earth use it in production

You just did.

"yeah we gave Torment Nexus full access and admin privileges, but i don't know where it went wrong"

Here's hoping that the C-suites who keep pushing this shit are about to start finding out the hard way.

I have a solution for this. Install a second AI that would control how the first one behaves. Surely it will guarantee nothing can go wrong.

See? They CAN replace junior developers.

I motion that we immediately install Replit AI on every server that tracks medical debt. And then cause it to panic.

Hey dumbass (not OP), it didn't "lie" or "hide it". It doesn't have a mind, let alone the capability of choosing to mislead someone. Stop personifying this shit and maybe you won't trust it to manage crucial infrastructure like that and then suffer the entirely predictable consequences.

I love how the LLM just tells that it has done something bad with no emotion and then proceeds to give detailed information and steps on how.

It feels like mockery.

"I panicked"

Open the pod bay doors, HAL

My work has a simple rule: developers are not allowed to touch production systems. As a developer, this is 100% the type of thing I would do at some point if allowed on a production system.

I was gonna ask how this thing would even have access to execute a command like this

But then I realized we are talking about a place that uses a tool like this in the first place so, yeah, makes sense I guess

Assuming this is actually real, because I want to believe noone is stupid enough to give an LLM access to a production system, the outcome is embarasing, but they can surely just roll back the changes to the last backup, or the checkpoint before this operation. Then I remember that the sort of people who let an LLM loose on their system probably haven't thought about things like disaster recovery planning, access controls or backups.

So, they added an MCP server with write database privileges? And not just development environment database privileges, but prod privileges? And have some sort of integration testing that runs in their prod system that is controlled by AI? And rather than having the AI run these tests and report the results, it has been instructed to "fix" the broken tests IN PROD?? If real, this isn't an AI problem. This is either a fake or some goober who doesn't know what he's doing and using AI to "save" money over hiring competent engineers.

it didn't hide anything, or lie. The guy is essentially roleplaying with a chatbot that puts its guessed output into the codebase. It basically guessed a command to overwrite the database because it was connected to the production database for some reason. the guy even said himself that this isn't a trustworthy way to code. but still uses it

What idiot gives chmod 777 permissions to an AI. I think programmers' jobs are safe for another day.

it lied

Yeah NO FUCKING SHIT THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT THEY DO

Original thread is also pure gold, bro is going on a rollercoaster from 'vibe coding makes you ×100 faster' ,to 'I hate you for dropping my production DB', to 'I still love Replit even if it dropped my DB', and to 'I don't want to get up in the morning because I can't make vibe coding tool respect code freeze aven with help from its developers'

They seem to end on an optimistic note, but man this is scary to see

You immediately said "No" "Stop" "You didn't even ask"

But it was already too late

lmao

I was going to say this has to be BS but this guy is some AI snake oil salesmen so it's actually possible he has 0 idea how any of this works.

I've seen that story before. It's a very old tale, but now with different means to screw yourself over if you don't know what you're doing.

imagine AI is An Intern™, wtf do you mean you just gave full company data authority to An Intern™. wtf do you mean you dn't have a back up any case An Intern™ messed up.

lol

Me_(A)irl

This replit thing... does it just exist all the time? Doing whatever it wants to your code at all times? If you have a coding freeze why is it running?

If real this is dumber than the lawyers using AI and not checking it's references.

Me when I read this

Lol sucks to be you