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points by lnenad 3 days ago | 0 comments

I've had a bad situation with a model adding a space between parameters `rm -rf ~/ folder` and nuking a portion of my homedir. This was of course running out of sandbox since I'm a fool, but lesson learned and I immediately implement sandboxes with nono and it's always fun to see the data after the agent session is complete, I've seen some weird things/URLs appearing. I've attributed it mostly to omp telemetry n' stuff but I'll try to be more careful about that as well in the future.

[–] hgoel 3 days ago

Out of curiosity do you happen to use a shell other than bash? I've noticed that all models, both local and cloud ones, tend to make much more mistakes if using, say, zsh. It is a frequent source of frustration for me.

[–] lnenad 3 days ago

I was actually using powershell and omp.

[–] AspireOne 3 days ago

Do you remember details about the rm -rf ~/ folder thing? Model, harness (omp?), context window size, reasoning effort (none/low VS anything higher is enough), when it happened?

Without those details, it's an interesting cautionary tale and a valid anecdote, but as actual practical datapoint, it's useless.

[–] lnenad 3 days ago

Yes of course, it's burned into my mind lol. Local GLM5.3-Flash, 4.0bpw running on a tuned exllamav3 server via omp, max effort 256k ctx. It was trying to cleanup after itself by deleting some temporary files it left behind the sweet thing. I look at it like a child so I take the full blame for the situation, and again, it's a learning experience.

[–] AspireOne 1 day ago

Thank you!