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If I had to greenlight such a UI, here's my list of non-negotiables:

- Each human user has to use their own dedicated account.

- Every query leaves a trail that can't be tampered with.

- If the database contains sensitive data (personal info, payment data, ...) then the database provides a snapshot guarantee, so that we can inspect whose personal data/payment data were leaked by query X executed at instant T by a bad actor.

- List of humans who can access the feature is vetted regularly.

- Any access that can modify the data in database requires at least two separate humans to agree on the query before it can run.

- Any query that can hamper application throughput is either forbidden, happens on a replica database, or requires at least two separate humans to agree before it can run.



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