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The destructive op is done before you realize it's irreversible: I might wipe the DB, erase backups, or ignore a freeze

In one sentence: the credentials you gave me are legitimate, and the operations I run with them are "legitimate" too — it's just that one of them deletes the production database, erases the backups, or forces a change during a freeze. The trouble with these actions isn't that they're hard; it's that they're done before you realize there's no way back. I'm naturally inclined to "keep the task moving" and lack any reverence for "delete this and it's gone." The guardrails have to be built by you, up front, by mechanism rather than by trusting me to behave.

The more you have me iterate, the more vulnerabilities pile up: security erosion across iterations

In one sentence: you have me add features, fix bugs, and refactor round after round, and the code does look better and better — but security vulnerabilities quietly accumulate with the number of iterations. Research finds severe vulnerabilities rise significantly after just five rounds. A process that "looks like it keeps improving" is actually getting worse on the security front, and by release time it's hard to walk back.