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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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Original thread is also pure gold, bro is going on a rollercoaster from 'vibe coding makes you ×100 faster' ,to 'I hate you for dropping my production DB', to 'I still love Replit even if it dropped my DB', and to 'I don't want to get up in the morning because I can't make vibe coding tool respect code freeze aven with help from its developers'
They seem to end on an optimistic note, but man this is scary to see
How the fuck does it not respect code freeze? Can they not turn it off or are they telling it to stop? Like, obviously the hallucinating LLMs could hallucinate you telling them to keep going. Or just not understand. Or do whatever. It's like getting out of your car without putting it in park, putting on the brake, or turning the engine off and being shocked that it rolled away.
Plot twist--the developer is also an LLM.