> gparted wasn't to blame. I was.

These can both be true, especially if/when it has bad defaults. This is why you have things like "type the name of the database you're dropping" safety features - but you also have to name your production database something like "THE REAL DaTabaSe - FIRE ME" so you have to type that and not fall into the trap of ending up with the same name in test/development.

AI is particularly seductive because it sounds like a reasonable person has thought things out, but it's all just a giant confidence trick (that works most of the time, which makes it even more dangerous).