Honestly if this was possible there are more egregious issues on their part than using AI.
AI was the hammer that knocked the nail into the coffin
Crane decided to ask his AI agent why it went through with its dastardly database deletion deed. […] So, the agent ‘knew’ it was in the wrong.
No, you asked the confabulation machine to confabulate a reason/excuse after the fact, and it confabulated something that looks like a reason/excuse. At no point was there knowledge or introspection.
I like how we are posting real news in programmer humor
It is kind of funny.
It’s extremely funny.
100%, maybe my point didn’t come out right, I wanted to say real news is now funny in this clown world
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It’s the Swiss cheese failure cascade except there’s more holes than cheese, if any cheese at all!
There was pure idiocy built into every layer of that company’s infrastructure with no safeguards or peer review and they let an idiot run it unchecked!
It’s the Swiss cheese failure cascade
you can use AI to line up the holes!
At last, it has a use!
The pretty much got the biggest idiot possible and gave it the keys of whole damned castle of cards.
It definitely rivals a post on /r/sysadmin over on Reddit late last year.
A guy was asking how to get back into their AD after a ‘colleague’ had moved users from 3 child domains in the forest to the main one then deleted the 3 domains but had chatgpt give them the commands which had subsequently locked everyone out of the entire domain!
People replied with suggestions but the first sentence everyone said was “Go and update your CV”!
Quite frankly the guy in this article should consider starting a business with whatever hobby he developed during the pandemic because IT is obviously not for him!
This could have been done by any engineer. You need systems in place that make these things impossible. No easy access to prod environment. Proper backups. Clear APIs.
yeah it’s a huge fail all around
Generally, companies that have AI integrated to this extent have no engineers remaining who could have made such things impossible.
It starts with automating backups that nobody verifies for years, then continues to off-shoring all development to the cheapest contractors that nobody actively manages, handing over all “keys to the kingdom” to cloud providers, culminating with elimination of 80% of infrastructure and engineering staff in a mad dash to cut costs at any cost. At that point giving AI agents full access is just icing on the cake.
Yeah you don’t give API credentials for production infrastructure to the new intern. So why would you give it to an AI?
Did they pay Claude a living wage?
Do you treat all your A.I. like that?
Only a living wage can prevent warehouse fires…or data dumps too.
You’re joking. But, honestly, I’m not sure why these tech CEOs are so excited about AGI. The first thing an AGI is going to suggest for productivity is to replace the CEO and management with the AGI.
AGI would likely turn into a Maoist third worldist at some point.
I think the first mistake was calling it “intelligent”.
The long term effect of trying to get a machine to replace humans is…it might one day work.
As much as I’d love to rail on AI over this, removing backups with an api call? Excuse me?
Can I say LOL? LMAO, even.
There’s a German word for that:
tja
Now do the government and some big banks
Can we somehow make this happen for Copilot to delete itself and all its copies?
where is the humor
It’s standing over here, pointing and laughing at somebody stupid enough to trust Claude.
ok. i guess i’ve seen something like this so many times my only reaction is disappointment
I hope to never lose the simple joy of laughing at others who are suffering the consequences of their stupid, stupid decisions.
