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don't do ai and code kids (quokk.au)
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[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The user explained what exactly went wrong later on. The AI gave a list of instructions as steps, and one of the steps was deleting a specific Node.js folder on that D:\ drive. The user didn't want to follow the steps and just said "do everything for me" which the AI prompted for confirmation and received. The AI then indeed ran commands freely, with the same privilege as the user, however this being an AI the commands were broken and simply deleted the root of the drive rather than just one folder.

So yes, technically the AI didn't simply delete the drive - it asked for confirmation first. But also yes, the AI did make a dumb mistake.