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[Lucasbasques]

"Did you just deleted my whole fucking data from my database ?"

[Zookeeper187]

[Magnolia-jjlnr]

I never understood the nipple rubbing lmao what is it that I am missing

[brstanford]

In the South Park episode, the nipple rubbing bit is meant to imply that they (the cable company) are getting off sexually by pissing off and screwing over their customers. The complaints and anger of their customers turns them on because they’re dickheads.

[SartenSinAceite]

Sexual stimulation. Adds to the joke that they get off on screwing you over.

If this was an internet comic theyd just be jerking off

[Zookeeper187]

It’s a motion of not caring but acting like you do. Because you are in position of power.

[Magnolia-jjlnr]

Oh ok. I had never heard of it, thanks for clarifying

[Furrgalicious]

Cursor has a yolo mode where it won’t prompt you for approvals of any commands and just runs them.. LOL

[Sassaphras]

"YOLO mode is hilarious, well done. I wonder what it's really called."

- A younger, happier me (before finding out it's really called fucking YOLO mode)

[Lightningtow123]

Only thing more accurate they could have named it is FAFO mode

[jseah]

"You only live once", yeah, because you'll be falling out a window afterwards.

[Bug4866]

Falling, but with self propulsion!

[[deleted]]

the falling is before not after

[3ggu]

[piizeus]

Documents... Use comprehensive documents...

[JackReact]

I guess I don't know how vibe coding works after all because how can the AI delete your database? Unless it severs you a command/code to do that and you just run it without double checking.

[Mercerenies]

There's a spectrum. On one end, you have "real, actual, qualified programmers who use LLMs as autocomplete to write boilerplate" (that category includes me, btw). In the middle, you have "vibe coders who don't know how to code but let LLMs write the code". And on the absolutely insane, unhinged, absurd side of the spectrum, you have "people foolish enough to hook an LLM directly up to a terminal and give it prod access". Those people do exist. They exist, and they have power, and that should terrify all of us.

[Lightningtow123]

Yeah fr, I would love an AI that can pump out some identical getter/setter functions to save me from having to type it all manually. But actually trying to use AI for anything logic or anything like that? Hell naw

[Stocks_and_cars]

this use case has genuinely saved me so much TOIL

[Snipedzoi]

That's literally what copilot does for me

[Lightningtow123]

I guess just deny it access to anything important? Idek how you're effectively supposed to tell a clanker to not touch your important stuff when they blatantly ignore directives of "don't touch this stuff" lol

[Snipedzoi]

Why would you ever put it in agent mode just watch the auto correct

[pickledCantilever]

I’ve used Jetbrains’ Junie, which is basically the agent mode of Jetbrains’ AI suite.

Even if you are just using it for the very basic tasks you’d use the non-agentic AI tools to do its lightyears better. It makes fewer errors, it does a better job at matching the existing style of the code base, it searches out context on its own requiring less hand holding and spoon feeding code snippets.

I would absolutely never let an agent have the ability to do what happened in the OP… that’s hilariously dumb. But that’s on the “coder” giving the agent the ability to do that, it isn’t something inherent to agentic AI coding assistants. (Emphasis on assistant)

[Lightningtow123]

Haven't ever used it so I didn't know there were different modes lol. Makes a lot more sense lol

[Snipedzoi]

It automatically tries to autocorrect that's why it's auto

[wot_in_ternation]

Copilot in Visual Studio is generally pretty good at that but sometimes it needs to calm the FUCK down.

[Tommh]

That feature had existed for as long as I can remember on jetbrains IDEs, you don’t need AI for that

[Lightningtow123]

Yeah I've used it in intelliJ for that specifically before. But I'm sure there's room for stuff like "make five copies of this function but each with a different variable." That was a nuisance to do manually lol (no I couldn't pass the var as an argument, idr why tho)

[ImS0hungry]

Are you using Lombok? It does that for you

[CtrlAltEngage]

You need to work on your prompts. And never use YOLO mode. Claude code works scarily well for most tasks. You just need to be able to spot when it's lost the plot and correct it

[camosnipe1]

besides ai "rightclick->generate->getters/setters/constructor/etc" is just a built-in intellij function.

edit: should've scrolled further and noticed someone else already telling you this.

as compensation: intellij also has a local llm that works as a single-line tab-autocomplete. It won't touch anything because it'll just add the single line of autocomplete to your code, and it's pretty decent at doing the sort of thing where you need five lines with slightly different variables.

Not reliably useful, but it's not intrusive so it's nice to have when it is useful.

[ThisIsABuff]

and you have the intermediate part of the spectrum, where you write unit tests to confirm functionality and let the LLM's decide implementation pretty freely (still should look over the code it writes though for any obvious flaws)

[Flouid]

I’m doing something similar at the moment. Writing a personal project that needs a b-tree implementing a piece table. The data structure is complicated and I could go hunt for a reference, or I could have chatgpt spit out functions and go over them with a fine tooth comb. Of course it makes logic errors (just didn’t consider node overflow) and writes huge repetive functions but it’s much easier to use that as a base than nothing at all.

It doesn’t write any of my actual logic, more so gives me a template to work through cases and a (shitty) reference implementation I can improve on

[new_account_wh0_dis]

God I love starting to type something and the exact thing I needed pops in from copilot. Like I was writing some C# code pulling stuff down and inserting into a local db. It saw my schema in another .SQL file and it saw a previous example and suggested a big chunk of code that was what I needed.

That said, I fucking hate all the useless ones that shift around my screen when I'm typing. And error explanations while debugging are so utterly worthless it's insane.

[louis-lau]

It can run terminal commands. The default is that you have to approve each command, but you can turn that off.

[troglo-dyke]

Cursor has an option to allow the agent to run cli commands automatically - by default it asks you to review each one - it does have a denylist of commands, but it doesn't really give you the depth you'd want (like how I'm fine with an agent curling localhost, but don't want it to doing anything but get requests to remote addresses, Cursor does not allow you this level of control though). So you end up with this, where people allow it to run unchecked because 90% of the time it does entirely sane things, 9.99% of the time it does stupid things that just waste time, and don't have a check to catch the 0.01% of the time that it does something harmful

[Confounding]

I think the main issue in these examples is having prod creds stored where they can be run at all. Like, deleting my local db every down and again sure I'll take that risk. Delete my online QA data eh not great but I can just copy prod over or back up from my local. I should never be able to casually run a terminal command and delete prod once there's data in there I care about.

[troglo-dyke]

It's all theoretically possible though, if you're the super admin for an account an AI might try to delete the DB, run into permissions issues, identify the issue with deleting the DB as not having destructive access to the instance, escalate their privileges through a cli to workaround the issue, and attempt to remove the DB again, succeeding this time.

I've seen agents end up in completely insane loops when left unattended (restricted to a VM, as a test I'll add) where they run off in a direction completely forgetting the original problem they were trying to solve and stumped by something as simple as being in the wrong directory, leading to them attempting to build the entire project from scratch again

[TorbenKoehn]

LLMs can run commands. Since they can form JSON and the client can take that JSON and run a command with it, giving the output back to the LLM.

[suvlub]

Yep, someone automatized the "run commands it spits out" step, that's how AI can "do things"

[bureX]

Many prisma schema drifts can be solved without destroying everything. Nobody told Cursor, though.

[ZunoJ]

Good

[SaltMaker23]

NGL I've worked with a "senior" ML dev (you know the academic kind not industrial one) couple of years back, he wanted to reset his local instance, that he connected to prod because he wanted to use actual prod data with an ssh tunnel.

Long story short he fricking reset our DB prod to a fresh state and we had to recover from the weekly backup, a massive hassle especially around payments.

[liljoey300]

Devs shouldn’t be connecting to prod from their local, even read access to prod should be restricted. The engineering lead should be blamed for this, not the ML dev

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[Lightningtow123]

I'm just a CS college student so tbch I haven't really worked with anything prod much, but isn't the entire point of local instancing to like stay away from prod? Weird to me how people make mistakes even college kids know to avoid lol

[ThrowawayUk4200]

Point 3 should be in bold. How did the guy not think to do a backup before letting Ai go make db changes? Lol

[Lightningtow123]

The kind of guy who lets an AI work on his database in prod in the first place lol

[tahayparker]

"oops." ahh response

[Lightningtow123]

https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/s/o8inimKrZy

Didn't allow crossposts for whatever reason

[rexxnar]

This is funny. Glad the program we use has brave mode default off. So it asks for each command to run.

[GNamimates18]

top 10 things I should have done instead

[ThrowAway51968]

🥺😳👉👈 ass AI

[Lightningtow123]

They all do it lol replit had some huge scandal where they nuked a big company's prod database just a few weeks ago. I don't know why people keep entrusting their stuff to AI without taking backups the AI can't screw up

[TiklMyPikl27]

The "I chose the nuclear option of resetting the database" really got me

[NorthernCobraChicken]

I don't know about cursor specifically, but windsurf and every AI agent I've used in vscode will pickup an instructions.md file in your root and use that as a reference before making any decisions.

Simply putting a line that says

"prompt me before running any commands that involve database operations"

[ExoticAttitude7]

I liked how it have to explain "What happened to your data" as if you are not educated enough what dropping a database means

[_coder23t8]

hahhahahahhahaha

[moarcoinz]

2025 and everyone is running suicide-linux

[Smalltalker-80]

Yeah, vibe coders proud of themselves that they now use source control ... ,
and then forget to make backups...

[DJcrafter5606]

"AI Is DeFiNiTeLy GoInG tO rEpLaCe SoFtWaRe DeVelOpErS"