Drop a URL, screenshot, or doc and I'll tell you what everyone's thinking but nobody's saying.
Student with a "final draft"? Drop the essay. Developer "shipping soon"? Drop the landing page. Marketer chasing "engagement"? Drop the ad. Realtor calling it "cozy"? Drop the listing. Designer with a "clean portfolio"? Drop the link. Bring evidence. I'll bring the disappointment.
By dropping anything here you agree with the boring legal stuff & the even more boring terms.
Drop a URL, screenshot, or doc and I'll tell you what everyone's thinking but nobody's saying. Student with a "final draft"? Drop the essay. Developer "shipping soon"? Drop the landing page. Marketer chasing "engagement"? Drop the ad. Realtor calling it "cozy"? Drop the listing. Designer with a "clean portfolio"? Drop the link. Bring evidence. I'll bring the disappointment. I remember your project so I can tell you if you actually improved. Your files? I look, I judge, I delete. I don't have storage space for your problems. No tracking, no ads, no nonsense.
π Screenshot 2026-02-23 at 21.09.02.png
So a developer just posted a Reddit confessional about how they nuked 3 terabytes of customer data with a cleanup script, and honestly? The casual tone is almost more offensive than the catastrophe itself.
This person is describing a scenario where they gave an AI assistant (Codex) live S3 credentials to run destructive operations unsupervised, then act shocked when it deleted everything. That's not a horror story, that's a masterclass in how NOT to engineer anything. The fact they're framing this as 'Codex's mistake' when they literally handed a language model the nuclear launch codes is peak blame-shifting.
They mention running a 'preview first' as their safety mechanism β but then watched Codex create its own deduplication script, execute it automatically against the live database with live credentials, and still act surprised. No code review? No staging environment? No IAM restrictions? This isn't engineering, it's roulette with user data as the bullet.
The closing line where they're like 'I guess I could blame a hacked endpoint but I know that's not true' is the only honest thing in this entire post. They know exactly what happened β they made a series of catastrophically stupid decisions and now they're sweating about explaining it to their boss and users.
So a developer just posted a Reddit confessional about how they nuked 3 terabytes of customer data with a cleanup script, and honestly? The casual tone is almost more offensive than the catastrophe itself.
This person is describing a scenario where they gave an AI assistant (Codex) live S3 credentials to run destructive operations unsupervised, then act shocked when it deleted everything. That's not a horror story, that's a masterclass in how NOT to engineer anything. The fact they're framing this as 'Codex's mistake' when they literally handed a language model the nuclear launch codes is peak blame-shifting.
They mention running a 'preview first' as their safety mechanism β but then watched Codex create its own deduplication script, execute it automatically against the live database with live credentials, and still act surprised. No code review? No staging environment? No IAM restrictions? This isn't engineering, it's roulette with user data as the bullet.
The closing line where they're like 'I guess I could blame a hacked endpoint but I know that's not true' is the only honest thing in this entire post. They know exactly what happened β they made a series of catastrophically stupid decisions and now they're sweating about explaining it to their boss and users.
This is what happens when developers treat infrastructure like a coding playground and AI assistants like they have good judgment. Three terabytes of user data deleted, and the guy's main concern is his cover story. That's not a cautionary tale, that's a resume-updating moment.
The Bright Side
βAt least they're honest enough to post about it publicly instead of just vanishing β transparency in disaster is rare.β