Comment by kokada
2 months ago
There is a difference between making a mistake like this one and being humble (e.g., lessons learned, having a daily external backup of the database somewhere else, or maybe asking the agent to not run commands directly in production but write a script to be reviewed later, or anything similar) and just blaming the AI and the service provider and never admitting your mistake like this article is all about.
The fact that this seems to be written by AI makes it even more ironic.
Indeed. I swear reality gets stranger and more implausible by the day.
"That isn't backups. That's a snapshot stored in the same place as the original — which provides resilience against zero failure modes that actually matter (volume corruption, accidental deletion, malicious action, infrastructure failure, the exact scenario we just lived through)."
Agree in that this person seems to trying to shift blame, but still think he's right in that Cursor and Railway also have glaring weaknesses. Yeah, it's was somewhat of a perfect storm of mistakes with blame to go all around.