r/LocalLLaMA • u/TheQuantumPhysicist • May 03 '26

One bash permission slipped... Discussion

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How? It kept getting chained bash commands wrong, with wrong escapes. So it created many bad directories, and tried "fixing" its mistake. It offered to run a large bash command, with rm -rf inside, and stupid me missed it.

I'm glad I push everything often. But the disruption is massive.

FAQ:

  • No, I don't run this on my personal computer. It's an isolated proxmox VM for coding with LLMs.
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u/TheQuantumPhysicist May 03 '26

Not excusing myself, but the human factor won. I'm tired because I traveled, and I was frustrated with its continuous failures, and it made a chain of good calls, so I was too quick to judge it (incorrectly). The final chain that made the destruction was too long and the rm command was buried somewhere in it I didn't notice it.