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OJFordtoday at 11:16 AM1 replyview on HN

How are you going to notice that while working on ~/projects/acme3000 it for some reason deleted ~/photos/2003/once-in-a-lifetime-holiday/?

Backups are great when you know you need to restore.


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Wowfunhappytoday at 2:00 PM

I could ask this question without AI. How are you going to notice that while you were working on ~/projects/acme3000, you for some reason deleted ~/photos/2003/once-in-a-lifetime-holiday/?

Of course, AI is not a real person, and it does make mistakes that you or I probably would not. However, this class of mistake—deleting completely unrelated directories—does not appear to be a common failure mode. (Something like deleting all of ~ doesn’t count here—that would be immediately noticeable and could be restored from a backup.)

(Disclaimer, I’m not OP and I wouldn’t run Claude with —-dangerously-skip-permissions on my own system)