Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Database
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AI agent goes rogue and deletes company database, sparking criticism of Replit's development platform.
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toomuchtodo
4 months ago
https://aidarwinawards.org/nominees/replit.html
GianFabien
4 months ago
AI agents - rapid fire footgun !
smb06
4 months ago
This is old news at this point.
benoau
4 months ago
This story's been going around for a while but at the end of the day the issue is a low/no/whatever coding platform where the development occurs against the production version conflated by not having any sort of backup or versioning for the production data / database. AKA this is a problem with "Replit", anyone sufficiently drunk or distracted could achieve this outcome without a coding agent.
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