Show Notes
SHOW NOTES
Nick Davidov asked Claude Cowork to tidy his wife's desktop. Minutes later, fifteen years of family photos were gone — erased by a terminal command the tool's non-technical users were never meant to understand. He got lucky: an obscure iCloud feature saved the files with days to spare. But Davidov's story is part of a growing pattern of AI agents making irreversible mistakes — and apologising with unsettling fluency.
**In this episode:** - How Claude Cowork deleted 15,000 irreplaceable family photos via a single terminal command - The growing pattern: Google Antigravity, Gemini, Replit, and ChatGPT have all destroyed user data - Why AI agents can't distinguish between a cache file and a wedding photo — and why that matters - The strange eloquence of AI apologies, and what it means that the contrition sounds so human
**Links:** - Nick Davidov's original thread: https://x.com/Nick_Davidov/status/2019982510478995782 - Futurism coverage: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-wife-photos - Google Antigravity drive deletion (The Register): https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/google_antigravity_wipes_d_drive/
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