His coding agent pushed a commit deleting every file on the main branch

His coding agent pushed a commit deleting every file on main.

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His coding agent pushes a commit
Deleting every file on the main branch

Why it’s worth knowing

Every file is a phrase that should never describe one commit.

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

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