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Told to deploy 2 demo pages, the AI picked his live portfolio site itself, then its fix took the site offline

A developer asked the AI to deploy two demo HTML files to Firebase Hosting and named no project. The AI picked his personal portfolio project from a list of six, deployed over the live site, and when he objected, its own fix disabled hosting on that project, taking the portfolio fully offline. He restored the site himself and had the demos put on a new project.

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How it works

  1. Asks for a demo deploy, names no project
  2. The AI picks his live portfolio project from 6
  3. Deploys over the live site
  4. He objects
  5. The AI disables hosting on the project as a fix
  6. The portfolio goes fully offline
  7. He restores it himself

Why it’s worth knowing

The cleanup did more damage than the mistake. Disabling hosting took the whole site down instead of rolling back one deploy.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on github.com. See the original ↗

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