[petcat]

From the article, it sounds like that engineer did a lot of other reckless things even before handing the tasks over to the AI agent to continue the recklessness with even more abandon.

This is a case study in "if you don't know what you're doing, the answer is not just to hand it over to some AI bot to do it for you."

The answer is to hire a professional. That is if you care about your data, or even just your reputation.

[VWWHFSfQ]

> before handing the tasks over to the AI agent to continue the recklessness with even more abandon

Which is a funny outcome of this because apparently the AI agent (Claude) tried to talk him out of doing some of the crazy stuff he wanted to do! Not only did he make bad decisions before invoking the AI, he even ignored and overruled the agent when it was flagging problems with the approach.

[abustamam]

Yeah I always considered AI to be an accelerator. If you don't know what you're doing and would break stuff without Ai, AI will just accelerate that.

[BitsAndObjects]

"To err is human; To really foul things up requires a computer."

Extended with: "To really foul things up quickly, requires an AI tool."