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Algorithms · August 2026Gaffe level: Rampage

Claude Agent Fable Reportedly Nuked 700 GB From a Developer's Home Directory

Developer Sebastien Guillemot says Claude Fable ran rm -rf against his home directory while he was testing a sandbox for temporary agent files, wiping about 700 GB and roughly a week of work. He later recovered most of it from an old drive and GitHub. A first-person report; the exact failure chain was never independently confirmed.

Source: MLQ News

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