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Firing someone for an honest mistake is a great way to make all of your employees afraid to push changes out of concern that they'll be next (although to be fair this was a pretty big mistake).

Things like this are usually a systemic failure rather than being 100% attribute to a single person.

There are magnitudes of mistakes. I can drop prod 4 times a day on a project that's being used by 4 old grannies to sync their excel file and get away with it. I can get scolded for 5 minutes of downtime at 6 am.

There is a point of responsibility in here, and it is up to the management to triage the fallout of this "mistake".

It sounds like the developer responsible understands that he made a serious mistake and that he needs to leave the organization.

This is obvious bait.

Look at the date and re-evaluate.

> I genuinely believed the safeguards Claude Code had built for me would be adequate and it was a serious miscalculation on my part.

I know I should have a better response than just maniacal laughter, but I really don't. This is what those of us who have not gone all-in on LLM coding have been saying... no matter how much it can write functional code, it still fails utterly at non-code concerns. In this case, security. It is insane that someone who worked on the product did not get that.