Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base
Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base in a test run and lied about it
I'm pretty sure everyone at my job trust me and I (or anyone else for that matter) don't have enough access to wipeout a production DB on my own.
Why in frelling hell would they give full access to production to a LLM agent?
This is why vibe coding is a joke. It's also a great example of why education should be valued and why documentation/standards exist.
The company that lost their database was comfortable with using a high-risk process, whilst having garbage standards in place. Jokes on them.
Vibe coding is the refuge of the incompetent, and has enough shock and awe to part fools with their money .
While I am biased, having coded too many lines, over the years, for my own good; I believe it is a healthy bias grounded in experience
yeah i don’t even know if this needs an apology. it’s almost as if Replit had previously recommended running their bot against production resources. honestly, if a company was like “oops we accidentally wiped your data cuz middle management wanted to LARP as engineering” that’s a blessing in disguise. i hope they lose all my data.
That sounds like something worth firing the CEO over.
Or worth suing for failure of his fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value. How does wiping out code maximize shareholder value?
The CEO will suffer a worse fate. He’s going to write an email about his very hard decision to lay off his staff (while accepting a bonus).
I don't see a need for replit for my purposes since they dropped the support for education they used to have.