[sriku]

He did have to type "httpie/httpie" in the box to confirm, no? I'm rather surprised that that didn't snap him out of auto-pilot mode. There ought to have been a DING in the brain seeing that the repo this is being applied to was httpie/httpie?

OTOH, I haven't been in such a mode, so I really got no right to comment on this. Best wishes to the team -- that those who saw his post will restar/rewatch the repo -- and (fwiw) thanks for writing it up and making me even more paranoid (in a positive sense) about doing such destructive operations.

[decafb]

By now I've become so accustomed to just copy the bold text from the line above it and paste, that it doesn't break me out anymore. I know I should concentrate and type it out, but in my head it has just become visual noise and a boring exercise.

[sriku]

Aha .. perhaps the interface can be changed to prevent copy-paste into that field.

[account42]

Better would be to not show the repo name directly above the dialog at all so the user actually has to think a bit about what they need to enter. Just re-typing a text shown to you can be done on autopilot as well.

[ignoramous]

All the talk about auto-pilot mode reminds me of this excellent talk on activation energy, waking up yourself from slumber, or flip-flopping between auto-pilot and emergency modes: Mel Robbins, How to stop screwing yourself over, https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Lp7E973zozc