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Agents/Simon Willison LLMs/July 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM

Quoting Thibault Sottiaux

On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review being enabled The model attempts to override the $HOME env var to define a temporary directory. The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead. — Thibault Sottiaux , describing a pretty gnarly Codex bug Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , coding-agents , codex

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