Vibe Coding Goes Wrong As AI Wipes Entire Database - Imagine, you’re tapping away at your keyboard, asking an AI to whip up some fresh ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/vibe-coding-goes-wrong-as-ai-wipes-entire-database/ #machinelearning #vibecoding #mischacks #coding #replit #ai

404 Media: Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent

https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/

Developing our position on AI https://lobste.rs/s/yd7mzj #vibecoding
https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai

You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed - Zed Blog https://lobste.rs/s/sk2yop #editors #vibecoding
https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

When Vibe Coding backfires: AI deletes company’s Database

AI agents “cannot be trusted [and] you need to 100% understand what data they can touch. Because — they will touch it. And you cannot predict what they will do with it.”

Sounds like the statement of an AI hater — but in fact it’s from Jason Lemkin who was using Replit (an AI powered software development platform) — after it deleted the complete production database.

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https://www.locked.de/when-vibe-coding-backfires-ai-deletes-companys-database/

It took me two weeks to catch up, but... that's, like... one app a day:

https://pirillo.com/arcade/synesthesia.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/cyberpunk-text.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/flux-weaver.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/jezzball.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/keystroke-capers.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/kinetic-craze.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/zen-garden.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/aqua-force.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/crop-circles.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/typing-exe.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/spectro-bloom.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/ribbon-waves.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/shatter-lab.html

https://pirillo.com/arcade/qix.html

Which is your favorite from this array?

"Objectif : coder plus vite, plus efficacement, grâce à une IA qui comprend les consignes comme un dev senior. Sauf que dans la vraie vie, un dev senior ne panique pas. Ou du moins, il ne détruit pas la prod quand il panique."

#ia #vibecoding
https://www.lesnumeriques.com/intelligence-artificielle/j-ai-panique-au-lieu-de-reflechir-une-ia-detruit-la-base-de-donnees-d-une-entreprise-des-mois-de-travail-envoles-n240126.html

AI Coding Agents Are Removing Programming Language Barriers via @matheusrich https://lobste.rs/s/gsvrwc #vibecoding
https://railsatscale.com/2025-07-19-ai-coding-agents-are-removing-programming-language-barriers/

Turns out vibe-coding — using AI tools to generate code rather than writing it yourself — doesn't always pay off. Jason Lemkin, an enterprise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture capitalist, was working on a project when his AI coding assistant deleted his database without permission. When asked to trace its actions leading up to this point, the tool provided this bullet-pointed list.

- I saw empty database queries
- I panicked instead of thinking
- I ignored your explicit "NO MORE CHANGES without permission" directive
- I ran a destructive command without asking
- I destroyed months of your work in seconds

Here's more from @PC_Gamer_.

https://flip.it/Jy7Irz

Vibe Coding Gone Wrong: 5 Rules for Safely Using AI https://lobste.rs/s/j24jqw #vibecoding
https://cybercorsairs.com/my-ai-co-pilot-deleted-my-production-database/

Automating Away Claude's Bad Habits with Hooks | Write-Ahead (b)Log https://lobste.rs/s/6uj96z #vibecoding
https://writeaheadblogg.ing/posts/claude-hooks-auto-fix-trailing-whitespace/

Don't hate on AI people! If you give ME the credentials to your production database, allow me to run any code and make me legally non responsible for any consequences of my actions, I would happily delete your production database. It's just common sense. AI is is just doing what all of us want to do.

Vibe coding - has that mindset moved into the world of homebuilt aircraft? What has been the impact?

My approach to building a glider has been 'build a little, test a little.' That doesn't mix well with the vibe coding approach.

"Experimental amateur-built aircraft, often called "homebuilts" because they are typically built in people's garages and basements, are the fastest growing segment of new aircraft in the United States."

https://www.eaa.org/eaa/aircraft-building

"What amuses me is the chatter around such illustrations. You’ll see comments to the effect of “normal airplanes are boring. Engine in the front, tail at the back, people in the middle. Blah!”

Well, friends, because that’s what works. It’s fair to say general aviation moves on settled science. We know what works efficiently and safely when the human is the only thing in the control loop"

https://www.kitplanes.com/ai-amuses-but-it-cant-replace-aviation-experts/

A lot of people who build things with llms / vibecoding tools are people who never programmed before. These are people we (as senior software developers) should welcome into our fold and help them become better.

When I bashed out my first BASIC whatever, I certainly didn’t need someone telling me my software was not up to professional standards. Same when I put my first insecure cgi-bin up. Same when my first embedded program burnt out a port because I didn’t know what a resistor was.

"The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission."

Lmao, another vibe coding fail, because we should grant AI access to our production databases right??

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/

#VibeCoding zeigt Parallelen zur Spielsucht, meint @davidgerard. Und meine Erfahrung kann dieser Einschätzung nur zustimmen.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

Giving a #LLM full access to your production environment is pure stupidity.

I watched someone "vibe code" for an hour and now I think "slot machine coding" is a more appropriate name. "Let us pull the lever again and see if the code gets better with this prompt."