Comment by fny | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fny | Hacker News Reader

Even though a lot of what people with agents is wreckless, they often build their own guillotine in the process too.

Problem #1: He decided to shoehorn two projects into 1 even though Claude told him not to.

Problem #2: Claude started creating a bunch of unnecessary resources because another archive was unpacked. Instead of investigating this despite his "terror" the author let Claude continue and did not investigate.

Problem #3: He approved "terraform destroy" which obviously nukes the DB! It's clear he didn't understand, and he didn't even have a backup!

> That looked logical: if Terraform created the resources, Terraform should remove them. So I didn’t stop the agent from running terraform destroy

> Problem #3: He approved "terraform destroy" which obviously nukes the DB! It's clear he didn't understand

The biggest danger of agents its that the agent is just as willing to take action in areas where the human supervisor is unqualified to supervise it as in those where it isn't, which is exacerbated by the fact that relying on agents to do work [0] reduces learning of new skills.

[0] "to do work" here is in large part to distinguish use that focuses on the careful, disciplined use of agents as a tool to aid learning which involves a different pattern of use. I am not sure how well anyone actually sticks to it, but at least in principal it could have the opposite effect on learning of trust-the-agent-and-go vibe engineering.

His backup plan prior to the event had large obvious issues.

His backup plan after the fact seems suspicious as well because he is making it much harder than it has to be.

Between that and a glance at the home page, it feels like someone doing AI vibe work who is not comfortable in the space they are working.

Who is the intended audience? Other vibe coders? I just think its weird that given his backup solution, he likely asked the AI to create it . whatever hot-wash he did for this event was invalidated.

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