> I did give [an LLM agent] access to my Google Cloud production instances and systems. And it promptly wiped a production database password and locked my network.
He got it all fixed, but the takeaway is you can't YOLO everything:
> In this case, I should have asked it to write out a detailed plan for how it was going to solve the problem, then reviewed the plan and discussed it with the AI before giving it the keys.
> I did give [an LLM agent] access to my Google Cloud production instances and systems. And it promptly wiped a production database password and locked my network.
He got it all fixed, but the takeaway is you can't YOLO everything:
> In this case, I should have asked it to write out a detailed plan for how it was going to solve the problem, then reviewed the plan and discussed it with the AI before giving it the keys.
That's true of any kind of production deployment.
[0] https://x.com/Steve_Yegge/status/1946360175339974807