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CPLXyesterday at 5:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Wait, what? Can you please describe this shame incident?

Also, I have extremely frequent commits and version control syncs to GitHub and so on as part of the process (including when it's working on documents or things that aren't code) as a way to counteract this.

Although I suppose a sufficiently devious AI can get around those, it seems to not have been a problem.


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ewoodrichtoday at 12:53 AM

Not OP, and haven't had it flat out rm the entire .git, but I have had Claude get flustered and pull a "Wait, no! what was I thinking? that idea doesn't work at all here, I need to revert that attempt and try something else..."

.. and then ran a fatally flawed "git checkout" command that wiped out all unstaged changes, which it immediately realized and after flailing around for five minutes trying to undo eventually came back saying "yeah uh so sorry, but... here's the thing..."

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