Post #1931636
2026-04-30 17:29 UTC
@yacc143 @dotjayne
A few years ago, people could have argued that one needs to be especially careless and/or malicious to affect large-scale damage on a production system.
In a way, I think it's very interesting that a entirely new danger category has emerged that is labelled "our own tooling".
And since the AI tools are pushed by the companies themselves, it should in principle be harder to blame production problems on single employees.
(In practice: "Why couldn't you magically forsee all problems?" and "Why didn't you check every line of that gigantic script?")
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@yacc143@mastodon.social 2026-05-01 16:38
@wakame Not really. I remember in my last job, reporting to our then MD, later CTO, that we might want start diversify in roles, permissions and AWS accounts because I could envision how a developer might accidently delete the whole company, or big chunks of it. Now 15 years later again in a startup, getting out terraforming so far that it does not mistakenly touch on resources of different build outs. No AI needed, disasters where human engineers deleted @dotjayne