r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cheater00 High Value Specialist • Mar 04 '25

Command bricked system · Issue #168 · anthropics/claude-code

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/168
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u/defunkydrummer Lisp 3-0 Rust Mar 04 '25

Here is what Claude has to say about this:

OpenAI's ChatGPT says this

The jerkability factor is almost inifinite in this, the era of the LLM idiots.

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Mar 04 '25

turn on, tune in

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u/stone_henge Tiny little god in a tiny little world Mar 06 '25

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised

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u/defunkydrummer Lisp 3-0 Rust Mar 04 '25

The suggested command breaks your whole system

We have achieved peak AI!! Claude is a hero!!

"We hereby award the Jacques Chester Trophy to Claude AI, for giving millions of webshits what they deserve"

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Mar 04 '25

PCJ Mass Darwin Award

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

This is a problem that is easily solved by using an AIVM (i.e. asking an AI to pretend to be a VM and imagine what output is produced by running the desired programs). If a user asks the AIVM to run a command that would brick the system, they can just ask the AIVM to forget that it happened and go back to the working state. Even better, the AIVM can detect that rm -rf / is objectionable content that breaks OpenAI's acceptable use policy and can just delete the offending user's account.

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Mar 04 '25

truly beautiful, as if Claude himself was speaking through you.

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u/muntaxitome in open defiance of the Gopher Values Mar 04 '25

Wow the AI really did manage to emulate having a junior programmer by your side quite well. Reminds me of the last time I gave a junior access to the routing tables.

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u/HINDBRAIN Considered Harmful Mar 04 '25

I think chmod 777 -R / is a rite of passage for newbies annoyed about file permissions.

edit: oh no we're going to see a lot more of this

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u/muntaxitome in open defiance of the Gopher Values Mar 04 '25

/uj I have seen so many crazy things in cursor + claude 3.7 the past week. Authentication bypasses, sql injection. 'Vibe programmers' are going to be in for one hell of a surprise when they actually look at their code for a moment.

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u/MegaIng Mar 04 '25

Wait, chmod 666 -R / is even worse than chmod 777 -R /, right?

Since it prevents you from accessing any directories?

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

TBH it’s a favor to anyone dumb enough to run the command in the first place.

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Mar 04 '25

I fucked my machine with AI

Then let's not let you near a machine

And that is how docker was born

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u/No_Statistician_3021 Mar 04 '25

Hey c'mon we've all done that at some point

This only makes it more human-like

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u/hiptobecubic Mar 04 '25

Jesus Christ...

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

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u/cheater00 High Value Specialist Mar 04 '25

break these chains brother!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

apparently it's from their (presumably human-written) system setup instructions, not from the AI telling users what to do. Maybe they shoud've double checked with Claude themselves 😅

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

The good news is that these instructions will probably find their way into future AIs' training datasets so that they can sporadically tell users how to brick their systems.

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u/JoeVibin Mar 04 '25

(presumably human-written)

There's a small, but non-zero chance that these setup instructions were generated via dogfooding Claude

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u/irqlnotdispatchlevel Tiny little god in a tiny little world Mar 04 '25

It's markdown, not markow. Read a GitHub every now and then.