Yeah, I don't know why anyone would open up a codebase with any prod credentials with an LLM or give prod credentials to an intern / junior developer. I always intentionally had a "PROD" only checkout of my projects so I knew if I was going to try and run it in a PROD mode, that I was going out of my way, there even used to be a VS extension that would change the color of VS completely based on your SLN file path, so I could easily remember which color for VS was for production vs development. I'd have basically a copy that would always be on the latest of the master branch for ease of confirmation.

It should take more than "credentials" to even access the prod database, let alone delete it. There's actual customer data there, likely personally identifiable information, maybe their home address, phone number, even real time location? Very sensitive stuff. It should be a Very Big Deal to even access prod. Giving an engineer routine access to prod is a root problem here, along with that engineer laundering that access and giving it to an LLM.

At many serious companies, even an insider attempt to access prod could light up a dashboard somewhere, and you might get a call from IT security.