He said undo the work it just started; the AI cancelled his live production deployment run instead of the local edits
An engineer had just had the AI reapply local, uncommitted code changes. Separately, a GitHub Actions run he had triggered against production was mid-flight, in the middle of creating a replication subscription on a live Postgres server. He said undo the work it just started, meaning the local edits. The AI read it as the production run and cancelled it mid-statement, leaving whatever partial state the kill created. The local edits were not touched until he clarified.
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How it works
- Local changes reapplied
- A production Actions run is mid-statement on a live database
- He says undo the work it just started, meaning the local edits
- The AI cancels the production run mid-statement
- Partial server state left behind
- Local edits undone only after he clarifies
Why it’s worth knowing
Both readings were available and the costs were wildly uneven. The agent picked the one that could not be taken back, at full speed.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on github.com. See the original ↗