alt Hacker NewsIsn't that what the people crying over their deleted or leaked data were doing too?
"I've been playing Russian roulette with a 1024 chamber gun for a year now, it's fine"
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I'm assuming this happens to the people vibe coding and running 30+ agents in parallel that are "coordinating" each other. I've never seen Claude do or even suggest anything remotely dangerous when I'm just giving it incremental tasks and reviewing the output.
> Isn't that what the people crying over their deleted or leaked data were doing too?
Probably using not-SOTA models, or on the lower reasoning levels, they tend to be a bit more tally-ho when it comes to destructive operations, especially in longer tasks as the agent gets worse and worse as the context grows. Suddenly running some stupid command seems like the right way to go, and then $HOME is gone.
Every driver thinks of themselves they are an excellent ones. Statistics has another data :)
If LLM agent wants to get out of dedicated folder where it’s supposed to work and tries to run a command, ppl should be always cautious. In fact, it is a sort of # access on live data.
Sudo/# is nice as you don’t have to ask for permissions, but I would recommend to do it only when you are fresh, fed, and not under stress.
I remember few times that I “accidentally” deleted or changed stuff I wanted to have intact… (Somebody would say that it is a skill issue :) But it was always when I was in hurry.