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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission instead of server cache— “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am" (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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  1. Lmao.

  2. They were "troubleshooting a basic web app" - this is something you'd hear from someone learning how to program, not someone who runs a youtube channel trying to make a brand from programming.

  3. In doing so, they needed to "clear their cache" by which they mean... their browser cache? webserver cache? idk but something that shouldn't be so difficult that you'd delegate to an LLM (nor something an LLM should get so horribly wrong).

  4. All that aside, I can see that being some wide eyed naïve moron would let you believe in the magic for a little bit. Truly, I've been there. What gets me is how they trail off their reddit thread quoting what appears to be verbatim LLM marketing output about how they were the catalyst for Google putting guardrails on the rm -rf generator which they're not even paying for. Google really cares about you, my sweet special sunbeam.

Fuck me, AI slop coders are finding out in real time.

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

It’s a combination of shiny new toy, and thus exploring the limitations. And then the occasional discovery of a good workflow. I’ve used it to clean up my folder structure, make powerpoint presentations, and synthesize notes from my hypothesi.s/obsidian vault.

But since these toys are made by American SWE, they just do “caveat emptor” and move on.

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