I had once lost my LUKS encryption key to StackOverflow effectively making me lose all the data that I had within that disk. It was only when I had scrolled down the article AFTER running the command, that I saw warning: your data will be unrecoverable and I panicked (I then used chatgpt but to no avail, and I feel like it might've made things worse even)

Anyhow, I think a larger lesson is to have a full context on what a command does before running it (reading what it does). With or without AI, Personally I feel like AI could've betrayed me there too.

Also, welcome to hyprland, I used to be on hyprland too and it was really good too but now I am on niri on my desktop. I recommend you to test it out within a virtual machine (I recommend using cachyos niri, I even have made an operating system fork of cachy which directly boots into niri)

Another point but one of the most frustrating experiences with AI is something which happened to me quite recently where I accidentally deleted a folder because I had put it out of ghostty into my desktop and I thought that it copied rather than moved and deleted it, even with recovery, I lost the .git/.jj files which was painful to recover from and also I hadn't really used git for the project from the start so there were some files that were a bit lost during that as they got updated by AI give worse code with more bugs and editing a previously good file

So one of the lessons I feel like taking from this is that I am looking at using something like auto-restic with 1 minute frequency to do backups of my project folder to another folder just in case and to always use git from the start and to suggest any LLM if I am using AI to always use git.

I feel like AI are quite fickle, I have seen them sometimes have a stroke of brilliance but sometimes they are really dumb even for the same thing.

> While the ultimate resolution of this story was 100% me setting up a DNS level block on ChatGPT's website

Love this line from your blog ;)

TLDR: Backups are amazing thing, I feel like we ignore them but backups/snapshots are awesome, you never know what might happen. Good to know that your story had an happy ending :-)

A Tale of AI Betrayal and Snapshotting Victory