Friday 4:58 PM. "Just push to prod, it's a one-line change." That one line deleted 47TB of customer data. The backup? Also one line short.
production
friday
data-loss
Intern wrote a while(true) loop that emailed the CEO. Every second. For three hours. During a board meeting. The emails were about "test".
intern
email
ceo-involved
AI assistant suggested a command to "clean up disk space." The human copied and pasted. The AI didn't mention it was running as root. Classic.
ai-assisted
bash
catastrophic
Found a spreadsheet called "passwords.xlsx" on a shared drive. It had 847 rows. All admin passwords. Shared link was public. Since 2019.
security
spreadsheet
public-link
Identical server names: prod-01, prod-02, dev-01. Guess which one got the experimental database migration. First guess doesn't count.
naming
deployment
migration