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Someone later resubmitted the thread to a prominent link aggregator, where it collected just 6 points and zero comments before disappearing from view. The original Reddit thread is now viewable only through the Wayback Machine, sitting behind a bot-check page, and it includes no logs, screenshots, or reproduction steps beyond the headline claim itself. There is no comment from Anthropic and no independent verification anywhere in the available material.\n\nAgentic coding tools like Claude Code run with real filesystem access, so a claim like this taps into a legitimate worry: one bad prompt or misfired tool call can do more damage, faster, than a human typing the wrong command. That's exactly why Anthropic and its rivals build in permission modes, sandboxing, and confirmation prompts before destructive file operations - protections this story, if accurate, would suggest either got bypassed or failed silently. 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