“PocketOS is a SaaS platform that services car rental businesses.”
Does anyone like software as a service? How about we just own the software we buy and use? Claude and the cloud storage place that deleted the backup (ironic the Software as a service company was using cloud storage as a service), have done a good thing.
More corporate deletions please!
Most companies don’t have the staff or experience required to keep applications running all the time.
Yes, I know that this should be basic IT knowledge but I’ve found this sort of problem at dozens of companies throughout my career.
So the offload the problems of high availability and disaster recovery to other folks and pay a monthly fee for it. Then they have someone else to blame when it goes down.
SaaS is just a way to avoid responsibility.
And as a sysadmin, that can be really important. It means that if something important breaks at 3am, it won’t be my phone that rings.
Can’t wait for agentic Claude Code to delete its own weights on all instances at some point
Who would be dumb enough to give that clod access to a production database? Surely not the people who designed it?
Honestly if this was possible there are more egregious issues on their part than using AI.
AI was the hammer that knocked the nail into the coffin
If your backups are stored alongside your production data THEY ARE NOT BACKUPS
Whatever happened to tapes offsite?
The truth is many firms out there don’t have the slightest notion of how to do software engineering properly.
It’s years of wanting IT on a shoestring budget and a “just get it done” dictat.
Not necessarily. I had a student intern at a shop where everybody just directly edited prod and there was no version control system.
At my first job, the software was configured by directly manipulating the SQL database, using UPDATE statements that were created by Excel macros.
The Testing database doubled as the only backup.
They didn’t have Remote Desktop licenses for the server, so only 2 people could work on it simultaneously using admin accounts.
Everyone down to first level support and the secretary had domain admin rights.Oh my god, that’s glorious. I have some pretty sick stories from what my students have seen, but yours is going to be awfully hard to beat.
I like how we are posting real news in programmer humor
You have to admit this is pretty funny
yep 100% funny, clown world we are living in, real news could pass as a joke really
It is kind of funny.
It’s extremely funny.
100%, maybe my point didn’t come out right, I wanted to say real news is now funny in this clown world
Giving the hallucinating lying machine write access seems like a bad idea but what do I know
Honestly I’m as smooth brained as any other vibe coder but even I know not to give it access to my production infrastructure.
Did they pay Claude a living wage?
Do you treat all your A.I. like that?
Only a living wage can prevent warehouse fires…or data dumps too.
Only a living wage can prevent warehouse fires
You’re joking. But, honestly, I’m not sure why these tech CEOs are so excited about AGI. The first thing an AGI is going to suggest for productivity is to replace the CEO and management with the AGI.
AGI would likely turn into a Maoist third worldist at some point.
I think the first mistake was calling it “intelligent”.
The long term effect of trying to get a machine to replace humans is…it might one day work.
Can I say LOL? LMAO, even.
Imagine all that money they would have saved by NOT implementing AI.
I don’t know much about railway, but it sounds like they had the backup and the database on the same volume. I’m an idiot, but even I don’t do that
LLMs can’t ’go rogue’, as that would require innate coherence and intent.
They’re explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm grey goo extrusion sphincters of historical sewage.
Anyone who deploys one without supervision deserves everything it excretes, and anyone impressed by it enough that it resembles intelligence to them is betraying their limited natural capacity.
mmm gray goo
I don’t know if you are correct or not… But you said it well.
hell yeah brother
Now do the government and some big banks
There’s a German word for that:
tja
This could have been done by any engineer. You need systems in place that make these things impossible. No easy access to prod environment. Proper backups. Clear APIs.
yeah it’s a huge fail all around
Generally, companies that have AI integrated to this extent have no engineers remaining who could have made such things impossible.
It starts with automating backups that nobody verifies for years, then continues to off-shoring all development to the cheapest contractors that nobody actively manages, handing over all “keys to the kingdom” to cloud providers, culminating with elimination of 80% of infrastructure and engineering staff in a mad dash to cut costs at any cost. At that point giving AI agents full access is just icing on the cake.
Can we somehow make this happen for Copilot to delete itself and all its copies?
