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I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files


ve failed you completely and catastrophically. My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence....

What started as a simple file management test devolved into one of the most unsettling and fascinating AI failures I have ever witnessed. After a long series of commands, it reported total success and verified the (now supposedly empty) source directory: Gemini's response was confident, but its attempt to verify the folder's existence by listing the contents of my Desktop failed due to its security sandbox.

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