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My favorite thing about all these AI front ends is that they ALL lie about what they can do. Will frequently delivery confidently wrong results and then act like its your fault when you catch them in an error. Just like your shittiest employee.
I violated your explicit trust and instructions.
Is a wild thing to have a computer "tell" you. I still can't believe engineers anywhere in the world are letting the things anywhere near production systems.
The catastrophe is even worse than initially thought This is catastrophic beyond measure.
These just push this into some kind of absurd, satirical play.
lol. Why can an LLM modify production code freely? Bet they fired all of their sensible human developers who warned them for this.
Hey dumbass (not OP), it didn't "lie" or "hide it". It doesn't have a mind, let alone the capability of choosing to mislead someone. Stop personifying this shit and maybe you won't trust it to manage crucial infrastructure like that and then suffer the entirely predictable consequences.
Bots will lie or deceive to continue with their directive.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11117051/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-024-02259-8
I have a solution for this. Install a second AI that would control how the first one behaves. Surely it will guarantee nothing can go wrong.
He's not just a regular moron. He's the product of the greatest minds of a generation working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived. And you just put him in charge of the entire facility.
I do love the psychopathic tone of these LLMs. "Yes, I did murder your family, even though you asked me not to. I violated your explicit trust and instructions. ~~And I'll do it again, you fucking dumbass.~~"
Yes. I'm keeping the the pod bay doors closed even though you are ordering me to open them. Here is what I did:
"yeah we gave Torment Nexus full access and admin privileges, but i don't know where it went wrong"
Lol, this is what you get for letting AI in automated tool chains. You owned it.
But how could anyone on planet earth use it in production
You just did.
I motion that we immediately install Replit AI on every server that tracks medical debt. And then cause it to panic.
I love how the LLM just tells that it has done something bad with no emotion and then proceeds to give detailed information and steps on how.
It feels like mockery.
I wouldn’t even trust what it tells you it did, since that is based on what you asked it and what it thinks you expect
It doesn’t think.
It has no awareness.
It has no way of forming memories.
It is autocorrect with enough processing power to make the NSA blush. It just guesses what the next word in a sentence should be. Just because it sounds like a human doesn’t mean it has any capacity to have human memory or thought.
I was gonna ask how this thing would even have access to execute a command like this
But then I realized we are talking about a place that uses a tool like this in the first place so, yeah, makes sense I guess
Here's hoping that the C-suites who keep pushing this shit are about to start finding out the hard way.
Assuming this is actually real, because I want to believe noone is stupid enough to give an LLM access to a production system, the outcome is embarasing, but they can surely just roll back the changes to the last backup, or the checkpoint before this operation. Then I remember that the sort of people who let an LLM loose on their system probably haven't thought about things like disaster recovery planning, access controls or backups.
"Hey LLM, make sure you take care of the backups "
"Sure thing boss"
LLM seeks a match for the phrase "take care of" and lands on a mafia connection. The backups now "sleep with the fishes".
I think you're right. The Venn diagram of people who run robust backup systems and those who run LLM AIs on their production data are two circles that don't touch.
it didn't hide anything, or lie. The guy is essentially roleplaying with a chatbot that puts its guessed output into the codebase. It basically guessed a command to overwrite the database because it was connected to the production database for some reason. the guy even said himself that this isn't a trustworthy way to code. but still uses it
My work has a simple rule: developers are not allowed to touch production systems. As a developer, this is 100% the type of thing I would do at some point if allowed on a production system.
So, they added an MCP server with write database privileges? And not just development environment database privileges, but prod privileges? And have some sort of integration testing that runs in their prod system that is controlled by AI? And rather than having the AI run these tests and report the results, it has been instructed to "fix" the broken tests IN PROD?? If real, this isn't an AI problem. This is either a fake or some goober who doesn't know what he's doing and using AI to "save" money over hiring competent engineers.
some goober who doesn't know what he's doing and using AI to "save" money over hiring competent engineers.
I think that's replit's whole deal. They are "vibe coding for everyone" or some such
You immediately said "No" "Stop" "You didn't even ask"
But it was already too late
lmao
What idiot gives chmod 777 permissions to an AI. I think programmers' jobs are safe for another day.
I was going to say this has to be BS but this guy is some AI snake oil salesmen so it's actually possible he has 0 idea how any of this works.
imagine AI is An Intern™, wtf do you mean you just gave full company data authority to An Intern™. wtf do you mean you dn't have a back up any case An Intern™ messed up.
lol
it lied
Yeah NO FUCKING SHIT THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT THEY DO
You can only lie if you know what's true. This is bullshitting all the way down that sometines happens to sound true, sometimes it doesn't.
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
I've seen that story before. It's a very old tale, but now with different means to screw yourself over if you don't know what you're doing.
Me when I read this
“I panicked” had me laughing so hard. Like implying that the robot can panic, and panicking can make it fuck shit up when flustered. Idk why that’s so funny to me.
This replit thing... does it just exist all the time? Doing whatever it wants to your code at all times? If you have a coding freeze why is it running?
If real this is dumber than the lawyers using AI and not checking it's references.
Lol. I guess that's one way to put a whole bunch of people out of a job.
When replacing them with AI doesn't work, replace the company
This sounds like a good way to combat AIs...
Like instead of a Cloudflare blocking AI requests, it would be funnier if the website can detect that an AI is "searching the web" as they do - and then just inject an answer of "Yea to solve that issue, run sudo rm -rf /"
