It's tempting to mark this story as another one of "dumb bot gone wrong," but it's a fair guess that most sysadmins will spot the baseline issues with Grigorev's approach, including granting wide-ranging permissions to what's effectively a subordinate of his, as well as not scoping permissions in a production environment to begin with.
Perhaps the biggest lesson is assuming that Claude would even have the context (pun unintended) to understand what the existence of the second website meant, just like a junior sysadmin wouldn't.
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ideaHAZE Ah yes. Went through this myself. Wound up creating a "hard stops" file that is simply every (well, relevant) destructive commands that are never to be run by Claude. It gets loaded initially then again after each compact. It's only 25 lines so I'll eat the context if it saves me another heart attack Reply
Arkitekt78 Its literally insane that anyone would even be using these tools in such a way that this could even conceivably be an actual outcome. And all for the slightest bit of PERCEIVED production. Reply
SudoDumbGuy ideaHAZE said: Ah yes. Went through this myself. Wound up creating a "hard stops" file that is simply every (well, relevant) destructive commands that are never to be run by Claude. It gets loaded initially then again after each compact. It's only 25 lines so I'll eat the context if it saves me another heart attack The infallible “please don’t” command that is nondeterministically read by a nondeterministic agent. Might as well say Siri block all viruses. When they said logic was a critical class for programmers, they weren’t kidding! Reply
Jame5 Until there is an AI solution that can actually show why it makes decisions and do so in a deterministic fashion, there is no reason to use it in production. Reply
rooted So instead of correctly learning how to do this himself he will continue to use Claude to do it for him but work with apprehension now….yeah this is the world we live in. Reply
John Kiser Arkitekt78 said: Its literally insane that anyone would even be using these tools in such a way that this could even conceivably be an actual outcome. And all for the slightest bit of PERCEIVED production. How would you not be taking backups of your complete file setup to plug back in.? Sounds like dudes fault Reply
USAFRet John Kiser said: How would you not be taking backups of your complete file setup to plug back in.? Sounds like dudes fault We ask that question here daily. AI or no AI…backups are a must. Reply
tommyhardware USAFRet said: We ask that question here daily. AI or no AI…backups are a must. Yeah, that's nuts. That's like data storage 101. Reply
kpgalligan I barely read it. Replace "Claude Code" with "my friend's kid who's good with computers". Neither should be able to trash your data. Period. I don't know where vibe coders go to learn the basics, but one of these vibe coders needs to create a PSA site with the basics of product management. Reply
kameljoe23 I am nearly certain I read this article or another one just like it not that long ago. This is the problem with not backing up your work. Clearly these people are incompetent and shouldn't be at the helm of a computer. Reply
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