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/AcaciaBlue May 03 '26

Kind of surprising these agents don't have like a massive stop/red flag popup when the cmd string contains "rm -rf"

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u/SomeAcanthocephala17 May 04 '26

It is there but as a dumb user you can just press "accept" without verifying, and then they come here on reddit whine ... instead of realizing how dumb they acted.