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[-] four@lemmy.zip 250 points 2 months ago

The "Thought for 2 seconds" and "Stopped thinking" are hilarious to me

[-] sobriquet@aussie.zone 61 points 2 months ago

I kinda thought they were in the wrong order, though: “rm -rf ~/“ should have been after “stopped thinking”.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 34 points 2 months ago

I think it did 'rm -rf ~/' and crashed. Hence the 'stopped thinking'

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

At least we know vibe coders will eventually destroy themselves.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

just wait until they start vibe coding on their brain implant

[-] tequinhu@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago

I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)

[-] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 41 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the time when I bind mounted my home dir in a chroot, then rm -rfed the chroot when I no longer needed it...

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 31 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the company where one of the top brass tried to unmount an important fileshare with rm. That was the day they found out that they didn't have recent backups of a, shall we say disquieting, amount of important information and people's work.

Staff started taking their own private backups of important things after that.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

Wanted to reorganize my /mnt once and did an rm -r ... without unmounting the network share of production.
We have backups now.

[-] Hazzard@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

Same, I didn't realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working....

[-] mmddmm@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gnome used to have a link to your homedir in its settings directory.

I imagine plenty of people had tons of fun with that. But you need to modify rm to follow symlinks nowadays.

[-] sobriquet@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I fairly recently tried to do a rm match* but accidentally put a space between the match and the *…

[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I did it recently. Its like watching your computer commit seppuku.

[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 2 months ago

Looks like ChatGPT will create more software jobs than it takes.

[-] _____@lemm.ee 52 points 2 months ago

AI will create the most cursed entry jobs humans have yet to see.

First job in the old days doing WordPress, managing someone's vomit inducing PHP? Gone.

Jobs with jQuery spaghetti calling dozens of asp APIs like a rat's nest no rat can traverse? Gone.

Welcome to the future: Fixing some "business" guy's vibe coded personal hell made just for you.

[-] noctivius@lemm.ee 58 points 2 months ago

deserved tbh

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is why the first thing I did when my company got us an agentic LLM was set up devcontainer.

https://containers.dev/

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 months ago
[-] weirdboy@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago

Never started

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 40 points 2 months ago

We call this a whoopsie daisy.

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I often use the phrase "that's definitely an oopsie. Maybe even an oopsie daisy" at work

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Whoopsie daisy-cutter.

[-] nomade420@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

I think it should've started with "stopped thinking"

[-] kittenzrulz123 22 points 2 months ago

It should have done sudo rm -rf /*

[-] SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 months ago

For when you want to delete everything in the root directory, but absolutely need to keep the directory itself.

[-] kittenzrulz123 6 points 2 months ago

Of course :3

[-] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So. Funny story. Back when I was incredibly new to Linux, I was trying to move everything from my downloads folder to somewhere else. So I navigated into the downloads directory on the command line and sent something like

"sudo mv /* ~/misc"

when I meant to type

"sudo mv ./* ~/misc"

Yea... That was a fun learning experience and hilarious way to utterly fuck everything on that machine. Luckily it was just an old laptop I'd installed Linux on to mess around and learn, no real damage done

[-] duckiegobrrr@kbin.earth 8 points 2 months ago

I mean I have to wipe out my ~ relatively frequently on some machines at times but that's for "actual" "reasons", LLM hallucinations not involved

[-] remotedev@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

ctrl-z... ctrl-z....CTRL-Z

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You can definitely do this redirecting output. I did this to myself and sighed about 2 seconds into it after realizing what I had done.

[-] SirQuack@feddit.nl 9 points 2 months ago

Creating a ~ folder isn't the tricky part. Removing it is.

(until you figure it out once)

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Is this assisted ~~suicide~~?

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Same energy as Republican memes

this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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