where is the humor
Well, it sounds like they totally deserved the failure. Asking a text prediction machine to “do” something is going to end up like this. In pursuit of efficiency, we have let morons and moronic products do things, they were not meant to do.
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.
Everyone sucks here.
Anthropic, slopping out a “Claude-powered AI coding agent” and telling everyone it’s safe.
Railway, making backups mutable and allowing them to be deleted with one API call.
And the idiot himself who, when things started going south, typed “DO NOT RUN ANYTHING.”, prompting the model to reply. Rather than, oh, I don’t know, maybe pulling the fucking plug?
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!
Hey, that’s the interns job!
Can we somehow make this happen for Copilot to delete itself and all its copies?
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
LLMs can’t ’go rogue’, as that would require innate coherence and intent.
They’re explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm grey goo extrusion sphincters of historical sewage.
Anyone who deploys one without supervision deserves everything it excretes, and anyone impressed by it enough that it resembles intelligence to them is betraying their limited natural capacity.
mmm gray goo
I don’t know if you are correct or not… But you said it well.
Honestly if this was possible there are more egregious issues on their part than using AI.
If your backups are stored alongside your production data THEY ARE NOT BACKUPS
The truth is many firms out there don’t have the slightest notion of how to do software engineering properly.
It’s years of wanting IT on a shoestring budget and a “just get it done” dictat.
I like how we are posting real news in programmer humor
It is kind of funny.
It’s extremely funny.
You have to admit this is pretty funny
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.
There’s a German word for that:
tja
hell yeah brother
Can I say LOL? LMAO, even.
I don’t know much about railway, but it sounds like they had the backup and the database on the same volume. I’m an idiot, but even I don’t do that
