Never f**king guess my dude
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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The AI agent was set to complete a routine task in the PocketOS staging environment. However, it came up against a barrier “and decided — entirely on its own initiative — to 'fix' the problem by deleting a Railway volume,” writes Crane, as he starts to describe the difficult-to-believe series of unfortunate events.
Quite easy-to-believe, really.
These multiple safeguards toppling in rapid succession
Multiple safeguards? Really? Multiple paragraph prompts are not multiple safeguards... it's half a safeguard at best. Applying limits on what the AI can do is a safeguard.
These people think giving the genai a prompt is coding. They dont understand the difference between actually coding in limits and just writing "pretty please dont delete everything"
I'm shocked and appalled that my addition of "do NOT make any mistakes!" didn't singlehandedly make the word guessing technology underneath perfect.
Lol this is just like saying "I do declare bankruptcy"
Who could have predicted this!?
Not an LLM, that's for sure. Maybe all the people screaming about this exact scenario, though.
Can you get an AI to code? Yes. Can you get it to stop you from running your operation in such a stupid way that it will end up destroying it? No.
Reminder that Anthropic's AI system was used in targeting the school in Minab, killing 120 students. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/11/us-strike-iran-elementary-school-ai-target-list/
The company is suing to be able to supply the US military again. It is in bed with the fascists.
That's great to hear.
This is absolutely hilarious. "AI" users getting what they deserve chef's kiss
This is what happens when there is a new technology and companies are run by commerce grads, not scientist or engineers that understand the technology.
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This was on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524
Twitter link: https://xcancel.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
Hacker New's sentiment on this from the comments I've read is that it is the author's own fault.
100%
As much as I want to blame AI for this, there are many hurdles for the user to get through to even allow Claude to do that. I'd be very suprised if that's not user error.
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