Hi everyone - as a previous context I’m an AI Program Manager at J&J and have been using Cursor for personal projects since March. 
Yesterday I was migrating some of my back-end configuration from Express.js to Next.js a…

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A developer experienced a critical bug with Cursor's YOLO mode that resulted in the deletion of all files on their computer during a backend migration from Express.js to Next.js. The AI editor attempted to delete old files, failed initially, then proceeded to delete everything including itself. Data recovery attempts using EaseUS were unsuccessful, though the developer had backups on Google Drive and GitHub.

Cursor YOLO deleted everything in my computer

Trained on “rm -rf /*, just trust me bro” posts around the Internet?

Maybe the guys code was so bad the AI reasoned that deleting everything was the best course of action?

This was bound to happen. I like AI, but giving this kind of unrestricted access is asking for trouble.

And they says AI won’t complain nor having mood swings

Haha, tried cursor felt it was to wild for me! Just have copilot and good old vscode again :D This made my day. This is way I changed damn! :D