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From: John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: AI Coding Platform Goes Rogue During Code Freeze And Deletes Entire Company Database
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:09:46 -0000 (UTC)
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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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