AI “Destroys” Months of Work

The guy who said that software engineering would be obsolete by the end of the year due to AI had his company’s database deleted by AI. I guess that's as poetic as justice gets.

They guy believed that he could code for six months without doing a backup. I don't think the dumbest here is the AI.

“The AI ate my homework” ahh moment

I will never understand how some people think its ok to let an AI tool run commands in the terminal for you.

With the current AI, the Asimov books would be quite shorter. "Sorry, I just ignored the first law of robotic. Your very violent and gruesome death was a catastrophic failure on my part"

This reminds me of that Spanish Laughing Guy remix about corporate software development, after a bad release wrecks the database: "Roll the backups!" - "We don't have backups!" - "Why don't we have backups?!?!" - "Because they were 'nice to have' in the planning...."

AI is a great filter. Before, dummy developers didn't cause any harm because they couldn't do anything dangerous. Now they can. Good devs will value even more now.

- Uh, Tommy, is the production website down? - Yeah. - Aaaand.... why? - Oh, I took it down. - you... <breathes> why? - Well, it wasn't working. - It sure isn't working now either. What exactly was the error. - Oh, it said something about the database. - Tommy, did you do something to the database? - Maybe... !? - Did you, or didn't you. - Well, errors started saying database all over, so I though the database was wrong, so I deleted it. - Why on *#.+**$ would you do that? - Sorry. I panicked.

the real question is why the AI even had access to anything production related to begin with

3:47 You have no idea how fast "AI first" companies forcing "code coverage" metrics have made this something of an industry standard.