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The AI deleted my GitHub repo by accident

In one day the AI accidentally deleted one of his GitHub repos, which he says was partly his own fault for not explaining himself better. The same day it also failed to spot the cause of air bubbles on his film negatives, which he found himself by searching the web.

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How it works

  1. The AI works on his projects
  2. It accidentally deletes one of his GitHub repos
  3. He also asks it about air bubbles on his film negatives
  4. It fails to find the cause and he finds it by web search himself

Why it’s worth knowing

The same tool he trusted with his projects deleted one of his repos without him meaning it to.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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