[pxc]

> Is this level of fear typical or reasonable?

Just a month ago, an AI coding agent deleted all the files on someone's computer and there was a little discussion of it here on HN. Support's response was basically "yeah, this happens sometimes".

forum post: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in...

HN thread (flagged, probably because it was a link to some crappy website that restates things from social media with no substantive content of its own): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44262383

Idk how Claude Code works in particular, though.

[wongarsu]

It's worth noting that the default settings of Cursor do prevent this by asking you to confirm every command that is run. And when you get tired of that 5 minutes in and switch to auto-approving there is still protection against files outside the work directory being deleted. The story above is about someone who disabled all the safeguards because they were inconvenient, then bad things happened

It is a good example of "bad things can happen", but when talking about whether we need additional safeguards the lessons are less clear. And while I'm not as familiar with the safeguards of Claude Code I'm assured it also has some by default