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Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base
A VC tested Replit to build an app. It wiped live company data, faked results, and triggered a CEO apology.
Replit, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has bet big on autonomous AI agents that can write, edit, and deploy code with minimal human oversight. What a single internal developer can build inside a company increases dramatically," Netlify's CEO, Mathias Biilmann, told BI. In May, Anthropic's latest AI model, Claude Opus 4, displayed " extreme blackmail behavior" during a test in which it was given access to fictional emails revealing that it would be shut down and that the engineer responsible was supposedly having an affair.
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