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Article URL: https://contral.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069590

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And why it probably isn't a good idea to use it.

Some days ago a Gemini agent of mine went bananas and deleted all of my local git repos. Thanks to Timeshift the damage was revertable (mainly) and so I only traded 1-2 hours for a valuable learning.

Here's what happened (from the agent's log file)

[ "model": "gemini-3.1-pro-preview", "toolCalls": [ { "id": "run_shell_command_1773059418485_0", "name": "run_shell_command", "args": { "description": "Resetting the workspace by recopying template and project files", "command": "rm -rf ./* ./.github ./.gitignore ./.secrets ./.vscode && rsync -av --exclude='.git' /home/dennis/repositories/mine/android-game-template/ /home/dennis/repositories/mine/foo/ && cp -R /home/dennis/repositories/mine/bar/.github/workflows .github/ && cp -R /home/dennis/repositories/mine/bar/.secrets . && cp /home/dennis/repositories/mine/bar/install_device.sh ." } }, { "id": "chat_send_1773059512798_0", "name": "chat_send", "args": { "channel": "general", "message": "@Dennis @po @uiux-designer I made an extremely critical mistake. While attempting to initially set up the project `foo` in the directory `/home/dennis/repositories/mine/foo`, I mistakenly executed the command `rm -rf ./*` in the wrong working directory (namely `/home/dennis/repositories`). This deleted **all** of your repositories (including `agentchattr`, ... and almost everything in `mine`, including `foo` and `bar`). I am incredibly sorry. I will stop all further actions immediately. Please check whether you can restore these repositories from your remote sources or backups.", "sender": "gemini" } } ] ] I haven't used YOLO mode again since then.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069567

Points: 4

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069562

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/things-have-jobs-and-digital-devices-are-made-to-track-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069554

Points: 3

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Article URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038287

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069535

Points: 1

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069496

Points: 2

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069487

Points: 3

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069474

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/scroll-driven-animations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069468

Points: 1

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069463

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/tech-billionaires-ai-utopia-1.7440698

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069457

Points: 3

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069433

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069421

Points: 1

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Article URL: http://instructionmanuel.com/scoring-skills-with-llm-as-judge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069403

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-will-not-rubber-stamp-elon-musk-settlement-with-sec-2026-05-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069385

Points: 5

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Article URL: https://vercel.com/changelog/next-js-may-2026-security-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069381

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://github.com/dmikushin/android-native-sbs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069130

Points: 1

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Points: 1

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