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2026-08-20 09:24
Read-Only by Design: Letting AI Explore Your Database Without the Risk of Writes
There's a moment every developer hits the first time they connect an AI assistant to a real database: it works beautifully, the model writes a clean SELECT, you get your answer in seconds — and then a small, cold thought arrives. What if it had written DELETE instead?
That worry is healthy. An AI agent that can query your production database is also, by default, an AI agent that can UPDATE, DROP,...
