Post #1739867

2026-04-27 08:58 UTC

It&#39;s silly when AI proponents experience the inevitable and blame the AI stuff and not themselves. &quot;I put my willy in the blender and it hurts now. Blender manufacturers have a lot to answer for!&quot; Or as they word it: &quot;Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic&#39;s flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider. It took 9 seconds.&quot; What a silly billy.

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@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie 2026-04-27 09:04

It's the weirdest thing, how often you get these "whistleblowers" running around going "Robot lawnmowers are not a good minder for small dogs" with no sense of how many more turns on the helter-skelter they've taken than the average person. "You won't believe this story." It's got AI in it, and you seem to have hurt yourself, so I already do. Latest example, complete with numerous fuckups on the author's part: https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 These are the people telling you to get on board.

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@sol_hsa@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-27 09:40

@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie The whole "computer made mistake" is just going to increase.

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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-04-27 14:54

@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie back in my day we used to have: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/

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