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I asked AI to modify mission-critical code, and what happened next haunts me


This seriously raised the hairs on the back of my neck.

They include lists of pages to make private or public, tags and categories used for the same purpose, and a variety of other site-specific privacy settings. Jules is known for developing a plan of action for any coding task, but given how little it provided for the initial analysis, I wasn't confident it would be able to think through all the implications and stages necessary. I had downloaded the aforementioned slightly overwhelming 13-page "how settings work" detail document created by the fully powered Deep Research before it downgraded.

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