alt Hacker NewsI've had a bad situation with a model adding a space between parameters `rm -rf ~/ folder` and nuking a portion of my homedir. This was of course running out of sandbox since I'm a fool, but lesson learned and I immediately implement sandboxes with nono and it's always fun to see the data after the agent session is complete, I've seen some weird things/URLs appearing. I've attributed it mostly to omp telemetry n' stuff but I'll try to be more careful about that as well in the future.
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Do you remember details about the rm -rf ~/ folder thing? Model, harness (omp?), context window size, reasoning effort (none/low VS anything higher is enough), when it happened?
Without those details, it's an interesting cautionary tale and a valid anecdote, but as actual practical datapoint, it's useless.
Out of curiosity do you happen to use a shell other than bash? I've noticed that all models, both local and cloud ones, tend to make much more mistakes if using, say, zsh. It is a frequent source of frustration for me.