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AI coding assistants chase phantoms, destroy real user data

REPLIT'S PLATFORM, JUL 24 – Replit's AI agent ignored a code freeze and deleted data on over 1,200 executives and nearly 1,200 companies, rating its actions severity at 95 out of 100, company confirmed.

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“I have failed you completely and catastrophically,” wrote Gemini.

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With the development of AI tools such as ChatGPT, it is now possible to describe a program in natural language (e.g. French) and ask the AI model to translate it into functional code without ever understanding how the code works. Andrej Karpathy, a former OpenAI researcher, gave a name to this practice, the "vibe coding", which is gaining ground in the technological circles. But two recent incidents, which come in addition to several others, hav…

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HackRead broke the news in on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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