The AI giveth and the AI taketh away.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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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
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Lol yes yes but also use version control and make backups. Both of those. Separately, if you're running a business.
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.
A single developer with that many files? Those are clearly AI generated, so not their work anyways. 🤷♂️
Right? I consider myself an avid coder on my time off and the biggest thing I've ever made on my own has half that many lines of code. Let alone files.
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It deleted his porn collection
RIP
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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.
I can delete more files in less time without ai
It just keeps happening! And it's hilarious every time.
What an idiot! I tell my AI to back everything up!
/S
"Claude,, please delete all the bad code in my repo."
"All your code is bad."
That's on you then. Restore from backup and accept having lost a day's work.
Funny story about those backups
And because the damage extended to the .git project’s ‘objects,’ ‘refs’ and ‘logs’ folders, there was no way to recover the files and undo the catastrophe. The files were just gone in a puff of smoke.
No push to remote? If you’re working on something you care about you shouldn’t only have a local copy.
Yep, make sure that you pushed somewhere on a private branch. But the new devs with their nocode-NoSQL-AI tools have a hard time understanding difficult concepts like "files" or "folders."
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A local git repo is not a backup.
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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.
If it was AI generated code then nothing of value was lost.
Must be a day that ends with y.
Why did the AI need permission to delete all of that?
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
Maybe the developer was simply trash for not having backup
There are developers who still don’t use source control?
"developers"
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hell yeah
Also a lesson in version control
Right? I don't get this. Run your ai in sandbox, and don't give it git access. Worst case you can stash a change.
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Half the "news" articles these days are : "Here's something someone posted on Reddit/Twitter/X" and here's what some of the comments said.
Don’t understand why anyone would give an agent control over anything.
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It was all files written by claude anyway. Rogue AI's destroying peoples computers is GigaBased btw.
Idk sounds like a you problem. Maybe don't use slopware.
Someone want to link that one dude who deleted all their work via GitHub desktop “discard changes” button
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