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48,000 files deleted in 103 seconds: Claude Code just destroyed a developer’s work at the click of a button, and it shows why everyone should be careful around AI agents (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Those are rookie numbers...

...when you create a for loop that writes to a unique (timestamped) file upon script completion, but accidentally forget to add an exit condition. I got nearly 100k files before I was able to force close the script.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    You should upload them all to github so they waste their resources scraping them as training data

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Damn. That's a really good idea! They've been long deleted. I bet I can recreate this on purpose, though lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago*

    Yeah and just automate your pipeline so it constantly uploads to github while it's running, and only keeps like the most recent 99 locally and deletes the rest as it goes. But make it look like an "agentic AI" is doing it so you can externalize your liability (like all the big tech companies do!

    You might get blocked pretty quickly, but if you catch them while the microsoft is sleeping then you might be able to succeed

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