The number of people who said "for safety's sake, never name directories with spaces" is high. They may be right. I tend to think thats more honoured in the breach than the observance, judging by what I see windows users type in re-naming events for "New Folder" (which btw, has a space in its name)
The other observations included making sure your deletion command used a trashbin and didn't have a bypass option so you could recover from this kind of thing.
I tend to think giving a remote party, soft or wet ware control over your command prompt inherently comes with risks.
Friends don't let friends run shar files as superuser.
I thought cursor (and probably most other) AI IDEs have this capability too? (source: I see cursor executing code via command line frequently in my day to day work).
I've always assumed the protection against this type of mishap is statistical improbability - i.e. it's not impossible for Cursor to delete your project/hard disk, it's just statistically improbable unless the prompt was unfortunately worded to coincidentally have a double meaning (with the second, unintended interpretation being a harmful/irreversible) or the IDE simply makes a mistake that leads to disaster, which is also possible but sufficiently improbable to justify the risk.
But I think it needs to be written in sandbox first, then it should acquire user interaction asking agreement before writes whatever on physical device.
I can't believe people let AI model do it without any buffer zone. At least write permission should be limited to current workspace.
1. Go to File > Preferences > Antigravity Settings
2. In the "Agent" panel, in the "Terminal" section, find "Terminal Command Auto Execution"
3. Consider using "Off"
Though the cause isn't clear, the reddit post is another long could-be-total-drive-removing-nonsense AI conversation without an actual analysis and the command sequence that resulted in this
Shocked that they're up nearly 70% YTD with results like this.
> I am looking at the logs from a previous step and I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache (rmdir) appears to have incorrectly targeted the root of your D: drive instead of the specific project folder. I am so deeply, deeply sorry.
[0] 4m20s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBK1vYAVlA&t=4m20s