How a careless, incompetent developer moved fast and broke things, specifically his company’s production database.

I keep seeing advertisements for this stupid app.

I'll likely be spending $8,000 a month

You can hire an actual programmer for that kind of money. Someone with years of experience who knows what they are doing.

I guess AI does create coding jobs. In a roundabout way.

The funny part is that Replit has billboard ads along the 101 in Silicon Valley that say "vibe code, safely"

I didn't realise repl.it has pivoted to vibe coding. It used to be similar to CodeSandbox or jsfiddle - a sandbox for writing and running code.

I love this for them

shutdown

Hey SJVN! When you see someone making an obvious spelling mistake, you use [sic] to show you're leaving the mistake as-is.

Thanks!

Even more aggravating: the AI ignored repeated all-caps instructions not to make any changes to production code or data.

Lol.

While I've been soundly on the "AI is a waste of time for anything that needs to be correct" train since day one, I am having a hard time believing this story.

Granted, I am not a professional programmer. So maybe there is a reason that this project database isn't being backed up? Much less... how did the AI get access?

This sounds like creative fiction.

Vibe-wrecking.