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I wouldn't give my rubber duck access to my system and then cry on twitter when he deletes my filesystem.
Please give me link!
These are just the first two I could find, but there are plenty of similar stories that have passed by.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part
Can't wait to have a laugh in the office about this tomorrow