GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac's files (twitter.com)

1 points by TimCTRL 3d ago ↗ HN

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do LLM models make accidents?

i think many times we look at things like this happening and think "can never be me", but it really could be me next time.

ftchd 3d ago ↗

Any other must-have tools like this?

Landstrip. Bubblewrap.

Oh no. Someone gave an AI access to delete all the files on their system and then an AI deleted all the files on their system.

And then that same person basically said, "I'll try a different model."

Lesson clearly not learned.

Clearly, additionally, there is many ways to secure this, and Fable could clearly do the same mistake.

Yeah it should be common sense at this point that this is a stupid idea.

I made the same mistake once with a junior dev

Always keep off-site backups.