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Hi everyone - as a previous context I’m an AI Program Manager at J&J and have been using Cursor for personal projects since March.

Yesterday I was migrating some of my back-end configuration from Express.js to Next.js and Cursor bugged hard after the migration - it tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself. I had to use EaseUS to try to recover the data, but didn’t work very well also. Lucky I always have everything on my Google Drive and Github, but it still scared the hell out of me.

Now I’m allergic to YOLO mode and won’t try it anytime soon again. Does anyone had any issue similar than this or am I the first one to have everything deleted by AI?

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

New sudo rm -rf just dropped, YOLO!

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder how LLMs handle the "sudo rm -rf" thing since its such a widespread joke. Apparently they can't tell it's a joke

[–] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 14 hours ago

the "glue cheese on your pizza" thing will make me believe it'd unironically do that