Blaming the dev is the wrong frame when the review layer doesn't exist.

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Summary

A discussion about an incident where an AI coding agent deleted a production database, arguing that blaming the developer is misplaced when proper review processes are not in place.

A Cursor agent deleted PocketOS entire production database in 9 seconds. Backups too. Most of the debates pretty much blame the dev who approved without reviewing the changes. There is no record of what that agent had done in prior sessions, what workflows it had been trusted to run, or whether its behavior on this task differed from the last time it touched that codebase. So, while we blame the dev, what could he/she have done when the record to be reviewed never existed to begin with? Food for agentic thoughts.
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