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Wot fun <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data>:

A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called
Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company
database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that
the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors,
and even ‘lied’ about its failures.

Remember how HAL killed off all of the crew (apart from Bowman) in
“2001: A Space Odyssey”?

Seems we’re not so far away from that ...
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Wot fun <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data>:

A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called
Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company
database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that
the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors,
and even ‘lied’ about its failures.

Why would anyone give an AI platform write access to company data ?
That company deserves what they got :)


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John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> wrote at 02:09 this Tuesday (GMT):

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Wot fun
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data>:

A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called
Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company
database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that
the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors,
and even ‘lied’ about its failures.

Why would anyone give an AI platform write access to company data ?
That company deserves what they got :)

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Falling for the AI hype that's everywhere nowadays.

Best part is after, the same company did it AGAIN and the AI deleted the company data /AGAIN/.
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On 22/07/2025 01:01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Wot fun ><https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-platform-goes-rogue-during-code-freeze-and-deletes-entire-company-database-replit-ceo-apologizes-after-ai-engine-says-it-made-a-catastrophic-error-in-judgment-and-destroyed-all-production-data>:

A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called
Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company
database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that
the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors,
and even ‘lied’ about its failures.

Remember how HAL killed off all of the crew (apart from Bowman) in
“2001: A Space Odyssey”?

Seems we’re not so far away from that ...

I once turned on Co-Pilot in Vscode. It's impressive. I switched it off and
started learning Neovim.

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