Honestly, the person who decided to give an LLM Agent full and unrestricted access to their production database is the person who deserves all the blame. What an absolutely silly decision. I don't even give myself unrestricted access to production databases.
I agree. An AI agent doesn't replace an engineer, it works on behalf of an engineer. The engineer who let this thing loose is, transitively, the software engineer that deleted the prod db.
After about 300g, my tongue swells a bit and I start to wonder if I'm actually allergic to them [0] after all. Smaller quantities seem fine though.
[0] I know it's not really the nut that people are allergic too, but some fungus that grows on pistachios and cashews.