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“Don’t touch prod” is a request, not a safeguard

In my previous post, I wrote that I barely write code by hand anymore. I mostly manage agents and check their work. And it turns out it’s easy to mistake an agreement in chat for an actual restriction: you give an agent a terminal, Git, server access, and tell it “don’t touch prod.” It agrees, of c…

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  1. 2026-11-08 18:45 · DEV Community — AI
    “Don’t touch prod” is a request, not a safeguard

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