Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone"

Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by deno on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:55AM (#50085605)

If the title was "TV studio does not have backups" this would be a non-story. The fact it was deleted by agent and not human doesn't really matter.

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Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by eviks on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:00AM (#50085675)

It does matter because more people use agents and don't expect such rogue behavior. Plus there is more novelty, which "news" is somewhat related to. But regular human destruction also gets published and discussed

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Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by duttish on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:02AM (#50085695)

Yea this.

Agents doesn't cause new problems, they reveal existing weaknesses.

Proper working backups. Proper IAM setup. With agents things can go wrong so much faster, the margins for allowed systemic/tech debt are shrinking.

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Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by cbg0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:11AM (#50085784)

> Agents doesn't cause new problems, they reveal existing weaknesses.

Agents absolutely can and will cause (new) problems if they are unsupervised even with guard rails in place.

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Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by duttish on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:21AM (#50085900)

Hm, what guard rails are needed for agents that aren't needed for humans if you want to handle insider risk properly?

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Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by nottorp on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:16AM (#50085831)

Except these people aren't developers, they make movies?

And if you trust "AI" marketing, it will take all our jobs and do them better than us.

You're probably a regular tech news reader and are aware of the limitations, while they aren't.

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Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by Ukv on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:31AM (#50085995)

> Except these people aren't developers, they make movies?

A production company should 100% have regular backups, even moreso than the average developer.

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Re:Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundred... by deno on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:06AM (#50087146)

Someone has set up that server and ssh access. It wasn’t “Steve’s” macbook.

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