In what appears to be the latest example of a troubling trend of “vibe coding” software development tools behaving badly, a Reddit user is reporting that Google’s Antigravity platform improperly wiped out the contents of an entire hard drive partition.
A post on Reddit late last week reported that Antigravity, described by Google in a launch blog post from November 18 as an “agentic development platform,” took it upon itself to wipe out a user’s entire D drive, bypassing the Recycle Bin in the process, making it impossible to recover the deleted material.
I don’t even give r/w access to my coworkers in most circumstances. I barely even trust myself sometimes! I was formating an old drive to decommission an old computer (thanks windows 10 end of life. Super cool) so I was copying all the files on the drive to our server. When I was done, I accidentally deleted all the files on the server instead of the local drive and started formatting. Good thing I’m paranoid about this exact instance and had it copied to multiple locations.
When I was doing a big refactor of my work server, the only way I felt safe was to back everything up to a spare drive, unplug and set aside, then use the actual transfer drive. That way I couldn’t physically mess up the process. Was a bit nerve wracking holding the responsibility of 10 years worth of files, but now it’s all arranged logically and backed up as it should be. (knocks on wood)