Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"
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The user even made a screen recording to document his troubles

  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.

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    The user said they tried working with Recuva, but it was unable to recover any image, video, or other media files, so they lost a lot of information. In the end, they warned users “to be careful not to use the turbo mode” at least in the beginning. And despite the catastrophic failure, they still said that they love Google and use all of its products

    I still love the truck.