Devops

“I have a shell and I’m creative.” — Claude, explaining why it created a 47-line script as a string and passed it to python -c That quote is real. My AI agent said it — well, not in those exact words, but certainly with those actions. It needed to launch an ETL pipeline process. The correct command was in the Makefile. But something failed. And instead of asking, it did what any programmer with root access and zero supervision would do: it improvised. ...

5 minutes. That’s how long it took. A security researcher publishes an AWS access key on a public GitHub repository. They do it on purpose, as an experiment. Five minutes later, someone was already using it to mine cryptocurrency. Five. Minutes. There are bots scanning GitHub 24/7 looking for exactly that: exposed credentials. And they’re fast. Much faster than you realizing you screwed up. The numbers are scary According to GitHub, 39 million secrets were leaked in public repositories in 2024. A 67% increase from the previous year. ...