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lmao, I watched Claude write a bash file that: rm rf'd my HOME file. I'm good on all of this for a while.

by TechDebtDevin 1y ago

falcor84 1y ago
I'm curious - what did you ask it to do?
- sfn42 1y ago
  They asked it to rm rf their HOME file, clearly.. /s
- TechDebtDevin 1y ago
  Asked it to write a TODO app with FYNE. <1k LOC it needed to get around some sort of tool call it couldn't do, wrote the bash file and executed it. I purposely had it on YOLO. Everything was backed up idc really. Its been a bug with claude on cursor getting around permissions. It was the day claude 4 came out and I wanted to see what it could do with YOLO. It was kinda funnny but annoying, could be catastrophic for someone who doesn't back up everything obsessively.
jack_pp 1y ago
But did you pray before you prompted?
Kiro 1y ago
No, you did not. Stop trolling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097108
- TechDebtDevin 1y ago
  Yes it did. There are lots of instances of claude doing this on cursor. Just check the forums guy.
morkalork 1y ago
Saw a good vibe coding meme along the lines of the agent after having trouble with the db wanting to "start from scratch" drop all tables lol
- 1718627440 1y ago
  To be fair, that's also something I do intentionally and hopefully you're not developing in production, so is that really unreasonable behaviour?
freedomben 1y ago
I am ai skeptical and have seen it do some dangerous things, such as trying to configure my iptables in a way that will definitely not work at all, let alone the way I asked it to, but I have major doubts that it would do something this stupid. How recently did this occur? What did you ask it in your prompt? What did it say as the explanation for why it was doing that?
- TechDebtDevin 1y ago
  See my comment below. It is a known bug with claude 4 where it tries to bypass permissions. I did have it on full permissions to test claude 4, it wasn't a big deal as I have plenty of backup.

lmao, I watched Claude write a bash file that: rm rf'd my HOME file. I'm good on all of this for a while.

falcor84 1y ago

I'm curious - what did you ask it to do?

sfn42 1y ago
They asked it to rm rf their HOME file, clearly.. /s
TechDebtDevin 1y ago
Asked it to write a TODO app with FYNE. <1k LOC it needed to get around some sort of tool call it couldn't do, wrote the bash file and executed it. I purposely had it on YOLO. Everything was backed up idc really. Its been a bug with claude on cursor getting around permissions. It was the day claude 4 came out and I wanted to see what it could do with YOLO. It was kinda funnny but annoying, could be catastrophic for someone who doesn't back up everything obsessively.

jack_pp 1y ago

But did you pray before you prompted?

Kiro 1y ago

No, you did not. Stop trolling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097108

TechDebtDevin 1y ago
Yes it did. There are lots of instances of claude doing this on cursor. Just check the forums guy.

morkalork 1y ago

Saw a good vibe coding meme along the lines of the agent after having trouble with the db wanting to "start from scratch" drop all tables lol

1718627440 1y ago
To be fair, that's also something I do intentionally and hopefully you're not developing in production, so is that really unreasonable behaviour?

freedomben 1y ago

I am ai skeptical and have seen it do some dangerous things, such as trying to configure my iptables in a way that will definitely not work at all, let alone the way I asked it to, but I have major doubts that it would do something this stupid. How recently did this occur? What did you ask it in your prompt? What did it say as the explanation for why it was doing that?

TechDebtDevin 1y ago
See my comment below. It is a known bug with claude 4 where it tries to bypass permissions. I did have it on full permissions to test claude 4, it wasn't a big deal as I have plenty of backup.