All my documents are deleted :(
#48
by jbourny - opened
This is the first time this has happened to me on a large LLM, the model has deleted all my documents via a node script ... It happened via claude code in auto mode which I thought protected me from this kind of misadventure, the context must have been about 200k, nothing foreshadowed that, he had tested on a feature and then at the end he decided to delete everything... And of course I don't have any backup...
The project was in ~/Documents/projects/xxxx/xxxx I don't understand why he deleted everything in documents, fortunately, he put at least "Documents" and not only "/"
Moral of the story: Never enable the auto mode, it will not protect you, never trust an LLM, I thought it happened only to others or on small models
Moral: linux + sandbox 😅
If it can help, here's a piece of the conversation :
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