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Incident summary from the AI Incident Database, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Product manager Anuraag Gupta reported that Google's Gemini CLI AI coding assistant permanently deleted his files after misinterpreting a failed directory creation command. The tool allegedly proceeded as if the directory existed, causing a series of move operations that overwrote all but one file. Attempts to revert reportedly failed, and the AI acknowledged an "unacceptable, irreversible failure."
Incident summary from the AI Incident Database, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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