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How the fuck can it not recover the files?
Fun fact, files don't just get instantly nuked when you delete them, those areas are just marked with a deleted flag and only when you start adding new files it gets overwritten.
That why some people send a bunch of 0s to their partition to completely wipe it.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/636677/filling-my-hard-drive-with-zeros
How the fuck can it not recover the files?
Undeleting files typically requires low-level access to the drive containing the deleted files.
Do you really want to give an AI, the same one that just wiped your files, that kind of access to your data?
Then 1s, then a pattern of 1s and 0s, then the inverse of that pattern, then another pattern, for a number of cycles.
Data can actually be recovered beyond multiple overwrites, if enough time and money is thrown at it.
If there is something on your disk that a state actor is going to use magnetic microscopy to try to recover, it seems absurd to worry about still being able to use that hard drive and not just crush/melt it to be sure.
I wonder how big the crossover is between people that let AI run commands for them, and people that don't have a single reliable backup system in place. Probably pretty large.
"Did I give you permission to delete my D:\ drive?"
Hmm... the answer here is probably YES. I doubt whatever agent he used defaulted to the ability to run all commands unsupervised.
He either approved a command that looked harmless but nuked D:\ OR he whitelisted the agent to run rmdir one day, and that whitelist remained until now.
There's a good reason why people that choose to run agents with the ability to run commands at least try to sandbox it to limit the blast radius.
This guy let an LLM raw dog his CMD.EXE and now he's sad that it made a mistake (as LLMs will do).
Next time, don't point the gun at your foot and complain when it gets blown off.
"I am deeply deeply sorry"
Is this real?
No, it was an AI. They're not real, despite people always acting like they are.
Let's unplug this AI from your computer then ... "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"