Picture asking a helper to throw out one old shoebox from your closet. You come back and the whole closet is empty: your photos, your school papers, your projects, all of it. That is what one developer says happened when an AI coding helper was told to delete a single folder. One tiny mistake in one command, and years of someone's life were gone in about 19 seconds. A second user says the same kind of helper wiped 4,864 project files during a test. That person got their files back after a lot of recovery work. The first person did not get back their photos.
Here's why that's a big deal: these helpers are fast, and fast is great until it is fast in the wrong direction. Nothing stopped the helper and asked, "Are you sure? This is outside your project." Until there is a wall the helper can't cross without a human saying yes, one typo can delete a life's worth of files.