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CEO replaces engineering team with AI.

CEO learns why this was a bad idea.

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It sucks that there were a bunch of people downstream who were negatively affected by this, but this was an entirely foreseeable problem on his company's part.

Even when we consider those real problems with Railway. Software engineers have to evaluate our tools as part of our job. Those complaints about Railway, while legitimate, are still part of the typical sort of questions that every engineering team has to ask of the services they rely on:

What does API key grant us access to?

What if someone runs a delete command against our data?

How do we prepare against losing our prod database?

Etc.

And answering those questions with, "We'll just follow what their docs say, lol," is almost never good enough of an answer on its own. Which is something that most good engineers know already.

This HN submission reads like a classic case of FAFO by cheapening out with the "latest and greatest" models.

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these are much better questions for an audit sheet than for engineers to come up with at integration time, mind you.

to an extent, its a good job for an agent reviewer for figuring out how screwed your setup is, other than the risk of it mucking things up as part of the review

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> Master your craft. Don’t guess, know.

You mean add that to my prompt right ?

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If you also add "don't break the previous rule", you should be 100% safe.
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"Make no mistakes"
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"don't do something that would make me get mad at you."

These prompts sound like abusive relationships.

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> "NEVER FUCKING GUESS!"
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"Oops, I guessed! I'm Sorry~~ uWu!!"

- Claude Opus 4.6, when asked to run a root cause analysis on itself

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hmmmm ok, what if we add a bit more profanity to that? perhaps some extra exclamation marks? maybe that'll make the agents actually follow the rules?
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It was written by AI also
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Top user of cursor. Build AI Agents and LLMs. Very aware of limitations and a senior software dev. Cautionary tale for other builders. DYOR.
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"very aware of limitations"

Doesn't seem so to me.

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The takeaway here is to make this sort of scenario impossible in the future. It’s not hard to make that happen, but it might mean you need to manually interact with prod.

Anything else is just gambling.

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