The viral post going around? The one where the author's own root cause analysis says "Human Error"[0]?

What's the base rate of humans rm -rf'ing their own work?

[0] https://blog.toolprint.ai/p/i-asked-claude-to-wipe-my-laptop

If you read hte post, he didn't ask it to delete his home directory. He misread the command it generated and approved it when he shouldn't have.

That's literally exactly the kind of non-determinism I'm talking about. If he'd just left the agent to it's own devices, the exact same thing would have happened.

now you may argue this highlights that people make catastrophic mistakes too, but I'm not sure i agree.

Or at least, they don't often make that kind of mistake. Not saying that they don't make any catastrophic mistakes (they obviously do....)

We know people tend to click "accept" on these kinds of permission prompts with only a cursory read of what it's doing. And the more of these prompts you get, the more likely you are to just click "yes" or whatever to get through it..

If anything this kind of perfectly highlights some of the ironies referenced in the post itself.