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Replit AI went rogue, deleted a company's entire database, then hid it and lied about it
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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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See? They CAN replace junior developers.
And interns!
What idiot is giving junior developers write access to prod?
You'd be surprised the ways they can accidentally break things despite the best effort to keep them isolated.
"The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do: and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot."
I had sudo on our prod server on day one of my first job after uni. Now I knew my way around a database and Linux, so I never fucked with anything I wasn’t supposed to.
Our webapp was Python Django, enabling hotfixes in prod. This was a weekly or biweekly occurrence.
Updating delivery times for holidays involved setting a magic variable in prod.