Honestly if this was possible there are more egregious issues on their part than using AI.

@yogthos

Crane decided to ask his AI agent why it went through with its dastardly database deletion deed. [...] So, the agent ‘knew’ it was in the wrong.

No, you asked the confabulation machine to confabulate a reason/excuse after the fact, and it confabulated something that looks like a reason/excuse. At no point was there knowledge or introspection.

I like how we are posting real news in programmer humor

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.

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.

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.

As much as I'd love to rail on AI over this, removing backups with an api call? Excuse me?

Can I say LOL? LMAO, even.

"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!

Hey, that's the interns job!

Well, it sounds like they totally deserved the failure. Asking a text prediction machine to "do" something is going to end up like this. In pursuit of efficiency, we have let morons and moronic products do things, they were not meant to do.

There's a German word for that:

tja

Imagine all that money they would have saved by NOT implementing AI.

Now do the government and some big banks

Can we somehow make this happen for Copilot to delete itself and all its copies?