What an idiot! I tell my AI to back everything up!
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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The AI giveth and the AI taketh away.
If it was AI generated code then nothing of value was lost.
Lol yes yes but also use version control and make backups. Both of those. Separately, if you're running a business.
Why did the AI need permission to delete all of that?
Skill issue.
Skill issue.
Asked it to build a mirror copy of a 48,000 file project that contained symlinks
Ran it on auto
Let it use Python
Didn't have backups
Didn't have anything checked in
AI is dangerous AF and is truely at fault here, but I can't even say that they wouldn't have fucked it up without AI. That's an impressive stack of stupid.
I can delete more files in less time without ai
"Claude,, please delete all the bad code in my repo."
"All your code is bad."
I don't care what happened, but I'm gonna take this opportunity to remind y'all to back up your shit. All those photos and writing and documents? Put em on a drive and put em in a fireproof container.
Going to take my advice right now.
For the same reasons as always, this is why we have version control
Be sure to grant your AI full and complete access to all your backups (so it can optimize them for you. /s
Nah, backups are for nerds who screw things up, like unit tests.
Remember to make sure its on a format that will last, like M-Disc or Tape, and preferably have multiple copies in multiple locations!
1 backup = 0 backup
the correct number of backups, is n+1, where n = the current number of backups
Version control? What's that?
Article says he did use version control. But it also deleted the .git folder.
The issue is he didn't have backups, not a lack of version control.
Usually people use some kind of cloud server for version control
Yes, as I said the lack of it was the issue. There was no lack of version control, but there was a lack of a remote backup.
It just keeps happening! And it's hilarious every time.
Someone want to link that one dude who deleted all their work via GitHub desktop “discard changes” button
There’s plenty of blame to go around. One of the biggest annoyances of AI for me is the number of tools that won’t let me create a read-only token.
Luckily my scm does let me do that so I can tell my LLM to do various reports and analyses without risking losing anything
Must be a day that ends with y.
hell yeah
It was all files written by claude anyway. Rogue AI's destroying peoples computers is GigaBased btw.
Instead of telling them to be careful, I vote we stop ever making articles about being careful and instead let these "developers" suffer the consequences of their own stupidity.
Hey, mind your words! We were forced to use AI. There's a fucking dashboard up there showing the correlation of token usage versus probability of getting fired next month! I fucking wish AI deletes all my files on the drive. That way, I can send out a complaint email to the IT department, and cc my manager and their managers, then refuse to work until they sort it out while getting paid as usual.
Maybe the developer was simply trash for not having backup
Single person project with 55k files in it, not pushed to any remote.
I'm gonna go ahead and assume nothing of value got lost here.
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