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We gave an AI agent a readonly Postgres login. It wasn’t as readonly as we thought

A while ago we had a Postgres login that was provisioned as read only for an AI agent we were working with. At some point the agent tried to do something destructive with it. I honestly don’t remember the exact query anymore, this was a while back, but it made us actually inspect the login to see w…

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  1. 2026-09-30 23:02 · r/AI_Agents
    We gave an AI agent a readonly Postgres login. It wasn’t as readonly as we thought

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