大多数人认为云服务提供商的所有数据都会自动加密保护，但作者指出Vercel实际上允许将环境变量标记为'非敏感'，这意味着这些变量默认不加密，这与行业普遍认为的'云数据自动加密'的常识相悖。

• The author accidentally dropped their production database while using an AI agent (Claude Code) to manage AWS infrastructure via Terraform.
• The incident occurred because the author attempted to merge two separate projects into one, ignoring the AI’s advice to keep them separate to save on VPC costs.
• The AI agent generated a Terraform plan that included deleting existing resources to recreate them under the new unified structure.
• The author authorized a terraform apply and subsequently a terraform destroy without carefully reviewing the plan, mistakenly believing the agent was only cleaning up temporary resources.
• Because the author had not set up external backups and the automated RDS snapshots were deleted along with the instance, all data was initially lost.
• AWS Support was miraculously able to recover a snapshot, though the author now pays 10% more for AWS due to implementing more robust (and expensive) backup and security measures.
• The "lesson learned" highlights the dangers of "vibe engineering"—relying on AI agents to execute destructive commands without human oversight or a deep understanding of the underlying tools.

Hacker News Discussion

• Negligence Over AI Risk: Many commenters argue that the issue wasn't the AI itself, but the author's decision to bypass standard safety procedures, such as reviewing terraform plan before execution.
• Critique of "Vibe Engineering": Users criticized the trend of letting LLMs handle infrastructure (IaC) without the human operator understanding the deterministic tools they are using.
• Infrastructure Over-engineering: Several participants pointed out that the project seemed over-engineered with AWS and Terraform when a simple VPS or SQLite database might have sufficed and been easier to manage.
• AWS Data Recovery: Former AWS employees expressed surprise that support could recover the data, noting that AWS typically treats a user-initiated deletion as a final security command to wipe the data.
• The Importance of Staging: A recurring theme was that major migrations should be tested in a staging environment first; running unverified AI-generated scripts directly against production was labeled as "insanity."

Good list of issues in this article. This issue of Credential Exchange Protocol / Format is so key to me, and so timely for this article, since the initial 1.0 was done a year ago. AFAIK there aren't implementations yet, Passkeys are locked on a device.

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