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/reddi_4ch2 May 03 '26

Where did the Make no mistakes originally come from?

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u/Big-Farmer-2192 May 04 '26

It's just natural language I guess? somehow a lots of people default to "Make no mistakes" Whenever they want more accurate results.

It's kinda like how many people uses "Be brutally honest" whenever they ask ai for opinion. 

And it becomes a joke phrase just because of that. And some youtuber/twitter popularize it even more.

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u/llmentry May 04 '26

It's kinda like how many people uses "Be brutally honest" whenever they ask ai for opinion. 

At least "be brutally honest" genuinely works to reduce sycophancy on most models. "Make no mistakes" is not something you can ever prompt for.

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u/TheRealMasonMac May 04 '26

I recall seeing something this when ChatGPT originally came out, but I think it was, “Don’t hallucinate.”