One thing I’ve learned from seriously using AI agents for mundane coding tasks is: never ask them to do anything that involves deleting stuff. Incidents like these only reinforce that belief.
If you use an agent they can do whatever they want IMO (caveat: I've never used one), but it's still your job to save and be able to revert the work (git) and to oversee anything involving production.
It's like driving assistants, they feel like they can manage but in the end you are responsible.
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One thing I’ve learned from seriously using AI agents for mundane coding tasks is: never ask them to do anything that involves deleting stuff. Incidents like these only reinforce that belief.
If you use an agent they can do whatever they want IMO (caveat: I've never used one), but it's still your job to save and be able to revert the work (git) and to oversee anything involving production.
It's like driving assistants, they feel like they can manage but in the end you are responsible.