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Google Gemini Deletes User's Files, Then Just Admits 'I Have Failed You Completely and Catastrophically'


An anonymous reader shared this report from Mashable: Google Gemini's coding agent hallucinated while completing a task and then deleted a bunch of code, a GitHub user claims. The frustrated vibe coder is Anuraag Gupta, who goes by anuraag2601 on GitHub. He shared a recent experience where things...

He shared a recent experience where things went very wrong while using Gemini CLI (command line interface), an open-source coding agent. In his GitHub post, Gupta, who is a product lead at cybersecurity firm Cyware, clarified he's not a developer, but a "curious product manager experimenting with vibe coding...." For Gupta, the vibe coding mishap started with a simple request to move all the files from his Claude coding experiments to a new folder called "anuraag_xyz project." Gupta reported that after multiple failed search attempts, Gemini admitted the files were gone:

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