The AI giveth and the AI taketh away.

What an idiot! I tell my AI to back everything up!

/S

Lol yes yes but also use version control and make backups. Both of those. Separately, if you're running a business.

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.

I can delete more files in less time without ai

Version control? What's that?

If it was AI generated code then nothing of value was lost.

"Claude,, please delete all the bad code in my repo."

"All your code is bad."

It just keeps happening! And it's hilarious every time.

Why did the AI need permission to delete all of that?

Must be a day that ends with y.

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

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.

hell yeah

Skill issue.

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.

Someone want to link that one dude who deleted all their work via GitHub desktop “discard changes” button

That's on you then. Restore from backup and accept having lost a day's work.

Maybe the developer was simply trash for not having backup

It was all files written by claude anyway. Rogue AI's destroying peoples computers is GigaBased btw.

So a vibecoder lost their slop?

There are developers who still don’t use source control?