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> The fact that an AI coding assistant could "delete our production database without permission" suggests there were no meaningful guardrails, access controls, or approval workflows in place. That's not an AI problem - that's just staggering negligence and incompetence.

Why not both?

1) There’s no way I’d let an AI accidentally touch my production database.

2) There’s no way I’d let my AI accidentally touch a production database.

Multiple layers of ineptitude.



To a non-developer, or no code review, couldn't the AI model also generate buggy code that then made it's way to production and deleted data just the same?




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