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.
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)