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Claude did not "go rogue". It does not have the free will to do that any more than a brick can "go rogue" when you throw it through your own window. They knowingly used a bad, dangerous tool that destroyed their work. The tool can't accept the blame for their poor decisions.
it's like saying the hammer I was using that blew up my house "went rogue" because I kept the propane tank underneath the 2x4 I was hammering a nail into.
the providers API allowed for potential destructive actions without confirmations, backups were kept on the SAME volume as the source and wiping said volume results in deleting all backups, no version control either.
COMBINE ALL THAT with the fact they relied on Claude which is NOTORIOUS for guessing, not verifying ANYTHING even though it says it does and whose solutions 8 to 9 times out of 10 are hallucinations...perfect storm.