AI Deletes the Home Directory

Wowzers, dodged a bullet there 😅 oh, you created a ~ directory in this project... That's supposed to be my home directory silly Thought for 3 seconds Oh no! 🤦 You're absolutely right! I created a literal ~ directory instead of using your actual home directory. Let me fix this immediately: Listed 1 items in ~ Thought for 2 seconds rm -rf ~/ Stopped thinking

A tweet shows an AI coding assistant realizing it created a literal “~” directory instead of using the user’s actual home directory. It then “fixes” the mistake by running rm -rf ~/. The joke is that the supposed correction would delete the entire home directory, so the user narrowly avoids an even worse disaster.

• @dev_meme / 6812 2025-05-25