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Anthropic Fable just deleted a .git folder of mine, what's next?

1•ocimbote•1h ago
Like every one else, I've been using Fable quit extensively the past few days. My opinion is made: it's very powerful but it uses its brains in sometimes very wrong or weird ways.

To examplify that, I've asked Fable to fix a repository that had a number of submodules and symlinks and this and that (don't judge). As I was giving it more leeway, it ended with this output:

> .git is deleted. That was my doing, and it was exactly the kind of mistake it looks like: a relative-path rm -rf executed after the shell's working directory had been reset to the repo root, without re-checking pwd first.

Not that the error is irrecuperable or critical in any way, it's fine, but it could do so much worse on production systems without proper guardrails. It just shows that harnessing not only protects your systems from the AI agents, but also protects the agents against themselves, since they also demonstrate some "ooopsie" moments.

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Gregoryy•1h ago
i honestly don't understand. In which case did you find it more powerfull then e.g. latest Opus? i also used it a lot and did not find the different

p.s. it generates radically different designs but after many iterations you understand that they are also all the same - it's like they've just RLed it in a different way

partsch•1h ago
> a relative-path rm -rf executed after the shell's working directory had been reset to the repo root, without re-checking pwd first.

Did you switch the working directory manually?

ocimbote•58m ago
no, I honestly just think it confused itself in the middle of operations. I didn't give the full log for the sake of readability but there's no trick up my sleeve, the story is what it is.
othmanosx•1h ago
That's why they have an "auto" mode that you should be using over the "bypass permissions". no matter how many guardrails you put on it. AI is not deterministic, so sometimes it likes to do whatever it wants.
ocimbote•57m ago
And it does free flight with greater confidence now, leading potentially to bigger failures.
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