The AI wrote an installer that deleted a ZFS disk member

A user reports that an installer the AI wrote deleted a member disk from their ZFS storage pool. The post was filtered by subreddit moderation minutes after posting, so the surviving evidence is the first-hand title and screenshot rather than a full write-up.

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Why it’s worth knowing

A generated installer, a routine artifact, carried a destructive step against the storage pool it was meant to set up.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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