This is an agent doing IaC for the company. Nowhere is it specified that the agent is only used in staging, only that the fuckup happened while working in the staging environment.
What is a “routine task in [a] staging environment”
Not sure what the routine task was specifically, but it doesn’t really matter. The task involved modifying the company’s infrastructure via IaC.
why does it need admin permissions?
It’s doing IaC, how exactly is it supposed to manage the cloud infrastructure itself without permissions to manage the infrastructure?
Why does the agent have permissions for the prod environment if it’s supposed to work in the staging one?
Who said the agent only works in the staging one? I doubt they’d use a fully qualified infrastructure engineer to manage prod and then give staging to an AI. Either that engineer is managing the company’s infra or he’s not.
What the article describes is an agent that manages their IaC, and when it was set to do a job in the staging environment, it deleted something in prod because it thought that would help it do what it was doing in staging. The CEO says the resource deleted was somehow in both environments at the same time. Not sure I believe that but that’s what he said. If that’s true, I would imagine that’s how the AI designed it in the first place.
This is an agent doing IaC for the company. Nowhere is it specified that the agent is only used in staging, only that the fuckup happened while working in the staging environment.
Not sure what the routine task was specifically, but it doesn’t really matter. The task involved modifying the company’s infrastructure via IaC.
It’s doing IaC, how exactly is it supposed to manage the cloud infrastructure itself without permissions to manage the infrastructure?
Who said the agent only works in the staging one? I doubt they’d use a fully qualified infrastructure engineer to manage prod and then give staging to an AI. Either that engineer is managing the company’s infra or he’s not.
What the article describes is an agent that manages their IaC, and when it was set to do a job in the staging environment, it deleted something in prod because it thought that would help it do what it was doing in staging. The CEO says the resource deleted was somehow in both environments at the same time. Not sure I believe that but that’s what he said. If that’s true, I would imagine that’s how the AI designed it in the first place.