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jve • today at 1:00 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

You don't get to blame AI if it irreversibly deletes your data.

You either didn't have backup or didn't contain your agent to a place it cannot do irreversible harm.

Actually Toy Story 2 was also (almost) lost because backups were not working for month+: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2#Troubled_productio...

A stay at home mom working remotely (In 1998!) to take care of newborn had a copy on her computer...


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dpoloncsak • today at 1:16 PM

Pedantic, but 'Stay at home' generally refers to someone who's chosen to not partake in the work-force, and instead raise a child/children. "Stay at home mom working remotely" is paradoxical, I think.

This doesn't take away from your point, though.

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wongarsu • today at 3:04 PM

The swiss cheese model of accident causes applies. No one cause would have triggered the accident on its own, it takes an unfortunate alignment of multiple issues. You still have to treat each as a cause.

In this case, a fault by the AI agent, bad permission management and faulty backups all seem to be contributing causes. None of them should have happened