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Do you have any detail on what "this job" was? Like I said, I don't have access to the original statement because twatter wants me to log in to see it.
What I do see is "routine task in the [...] staging environment", and that doesn't sound like a big blast zone job. Again, it's comparable to a job you'd give a junior engineer. There shouldn't be much a junior engineer can fuck up, no matter how "creative" their solutions.
Whether it's a human junior engineer, an automatic script or an agentic AI, they should never have more privileges than they need for their job. Granting someone or something that isn't the senior admin permission to delete a volume is irresponsible.
The AI generating that fucking awful idea is on the AI (or its developers). Both are partial causes for the incident. It's not just human error, but it's also human error that would have been dangerous regardless of AI involvement.
Correct. Like I said this was the job of a senior admin.
They gave the AI the job of managing IaC for their environment. Then were shocked when the AI managed the environment incorrectly. This is absolutely not something you let a junior engineer anywhere near.
You seem to be suggesting that the AI should be able to do the job they gave it without being given the permission required for it to do. The thing about doing things in IT, is you need to have permissions to do the things you’re asked to do. So you have to make sure the person you give permissions to is reliable and knows what they’re doing. The AI did not.