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GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac's files (twitter.com)
16 points by TimCTRL 19 days ago
6 comments

Oh no. Someone gave an AI access to delete all the files on their system and then an AI deleted all the files on their system.

And then that same person basically said, "I'll try a different model."

Lesson clearly not learned.

Clearly, additionally, there is many ways to secure this, and Fable could clearly do the same mistake.
Yeah it should be common sense at this point that this is a stupid idea.
Someone recommended this in the replies: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/destructive_command_gua...

Any other must-have tools like this?

Landstrip. Bubblewrap.
dcg nails the known bad patterns. I built something similar that handles the ones that need human judgment, irreversible actions it cant decide. both together covers the full picture.

github.com/phinq-co/phinq

i think many times we look at things like this happening and think "can never be me", but it really could be me next time.
I made the same mistake once with a junior dev
Always keep off-site backups.
do LLM models make accidents?