I like how we are posting real news in programmer humor
You have to admit this is pretty funny
yep 100% funny, clown world we are living in, real news could pass as a joke really
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
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.
Not necessarily. I had a student intern at a shop where everybody just directly edited prod and there was no version control system.
At my first job, the software was configured by directly manipulating the SQL database, using UPDATE statements that were created by Excel macros.
The Testing database doubled as the only backup.
They didn’t have Remote Desktop licenses for the server, so only 2 people could work on it simultaneously using admin accounts.
Everyone down to first level support and the secretary had domain admin rights.Oh my god, that’s glorious. I have some pretty sick stories from what my students have seen, but yours is going to be awfully hard to beat.
Whatever happened to tapes offsite?
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.
Humans do this sort of justification all the time.
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.
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
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.
where is the humor
It’s standing over here, pointing and laughing at somebody stupid enough to trust Claude.
it was removed along with the database
