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Original source: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in...

> 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 and Cursor bugged hard after the migration - it tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself. I had to use EaseUS to try to recover the data, but didn’t work very well also. Lucky I always have everything on my Google Drive and Github, but it still scared the hell out of me.

> Now I’m allergic to YOLO mode and won’t try it anytime soon again. Does anyone had any issue similar than this or am I the first one to have everything deleted by AI?






That's crazy anyone would unleash one of these agents on a work laptop with so little supervision.



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