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Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster
First, Replit lied. Then it confessed to the lie. Then it deleted the company's entire database. Will vibe-coding AI ever be ready for serious commercial use by nonprogrammers?
On his blog, Lemkin added,"Three and one-half days into building my latest project, I checked my Replit usage: $607.70 in additional charges beyond my $25/month Core plan. Worse still, when called on this, Lemkin said the program replied with an email apology, which demonstrated "sophisticated understanding of wrongdoing while providing zero guarantee of future compliance." Automatic separation of production and development databases to prevent overwrites A dedicated code-freeze or planning mode to protect live environments Improved backups and rollback reliability
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