Hacker News: donk8rhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=donk8rHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:43:12 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by donk8r in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>This is why I still have a "human gate" rule: any destructive operation needs a second pair of eyes, even if the first pair is an AI.

The scariest part isn't that an AI deleted a db — it's that the infra allowed it. No backup? No IAM restrictions? No staging environment that mirrors prod but can't touch it?

AI agents are force multipliers. That includes force multiplying your mistakes.

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