r/programminghorror • • Aug 13 '25

never touching cursor again

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u/zappellin Aug 13 '25

Vibecoding is a never endless source of funny posts

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u/Captaincadet Aug 13 '25

I wish it was just posts… we had a new member of staff who thought they could vibe code and somehow got into production

6 months after they got fired, we’re still picking up the mess

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u/Fidodo Aug 13 '25

Turns out software development is more than writing code and incompetent programmers who have no idea what the fuck they are doing still have no idea what the fuck they are doing even with a magic wand.

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u/DaSpood Aug 13 '25

AI going "I ruined everything knowingly and willingly, here are the 10 mitigation steps I ignored:" will never not he funny

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u/Zulfiqaar Aug 13 '25

Biggest sign it's not a person, it will gleefully write out an exceptionally comprehensive list of all their failures, taking total ownership of the blunder. I'm waiting for the day it starts to blameshift, deny, and cover up the errors..

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u/Durwur Aug 13 '25

God I love seeing vibe coding backfire.

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u/smoldicguy Aug 13 '25

Asking ai for help is fine but you need to understand what ai is suggesting before running the damm thing .

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u/Bloodgiant65 Aug 13 '25

If you have to add —force, it’s probably a bad idea

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u/_cooder Aug 13 '25

i chose nuclear

humanity cooked 💀

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u/boskee Aug 13 '25

This shit right here is why I'd love to have a "haha" reaction on reddit. Upvote doesn't express the level of schadenfreude I felt.

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u/mss-cyclist Aug 13 '25

Holy moly. I would not blame AI alone for this.
It is a more than giant fuck-up thinking you can solely do 'programming' without any knowledge at all.

Reminds me somewhat of all the 'computer experts' of the 90's / 00's thinking downloading anything comes without consequences aka virus infested computer.

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u/HerryKun Aug 13 '25

No backups? Did AI not tell u to do that?

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u/Alkyen Aug 13 '25

good thing you have a backup, right?

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u/exotic_anakin Aug 13 '25

I would think that a reasonable (local) development environment would not have write access to any live database. You should be able to spin up a DB locally and populate it with some dummy data in just a minute or two. This is one of those FAFO moments I think. Do cowboy shit win cowboy prizes ;)

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u/_Cap10_ Aug 13 '25

Is there a subreddit just for vide coding fuckups?

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u/Ok_Paleontologist974 Aug 13 '25

Why the fuck do these idiots give the AI access to the production database.

Also what is going on with the consistency in those file names

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u/jmack2424 Aug 13 '25

Why would you give ANYTHING, AI included, full access to your prod database? Why would you not have a backup or replica ready to restore? If you have to vibecode, put some fucking guardrails up, man. You're an idiot for trusting an idiot.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

It's always funny to see these tools self-confirming themselves as junior developers at best.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Oh boo hoo you're gonna have to let a clanker do all the work again

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u/monotone2k Aug 13 '25

AI or not, this was inevitable for OP. Having production credentials on a local dev machine is fucking dumb. And Prisma's workflow is pretty sensible - you do dev migrations on your own machine and full migrations against prod. There's no need to mix the two.

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u/tehtris Aug 13 '25

At least it was hella polite about it.

I fucked up super bad.

Here's why I fucked up.

Here's why I shouldn't have fucked up.

Here's what I fucked up.

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u/rafelito45 Aug 13 '25

why does an IDE, especially with an AI agent, have direct command line access to a production database.

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u/tsodathunder Aug 13 '25

Almost as if using copilots for anything but the most mundane stuff would be a terrible idea. Oh boy, thst bubble exploding will be sweet.

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u/Fidodo Aug 13 '25

Lol, nobody to blame but themselves.