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Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Anyone who lets AI do this is absolutely inept, lazy, or deserving.

In its default configuration, it stops at EVERY STEP. Do you want to run this command, do you want to update this file, here's the file I want to modify and the patch i'm going to use with adds and deletes in green and red.

If you're using it in unsafe permissions mode, click yeah sure allow Claude to run whatever the fuck it wants in this directory, or just hitting yeah sure go ahead every time, it's your own damn fault.

It's self-driving for the terminal. Don't you dare take your eyes off the road or hands off the wheel.

[–] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What do you mean I shouldn’t give AI admin privileges on my or any other machine?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

I'm rather a fan of letting it do stupid, repetitive shit. I need you to create 30 linux accounts the other day from a screen shot. Then store, initial keys and creds in my password manager platform.

Hey, Claude, write me a bash script to do this from this image. and also use best practice for removing non-standard characters from login names.

I review the loop and the general state of the OCR and let it go.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Depends on how much you enjoy fresh installs of your OS

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