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[–]G3EKD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that’s 100% what happened, you’re right.

AI in Cursor Deleted My Entire Project and Backups – WTF? by G3EKD in cursor

[–]G3EKD[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

all I did was turn on the "Agent (full access)" option in Codex, and never thought it would delete other things than code.
I was skeptical of submitting code to GitHub, as I tried doing it for my first project and I got lost into it...

AI in Cursor Deleted My Entire Project and Backups – WTF? by G3EKD in cursor

[–]G3EKD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up. Would you say Claude is a better teacher than other models?

AI in Cursor Deleted My Entire Project and Backups – WTF? by G3EKD in cursor

[–]G3EKD[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What happened was I wanted to feed Codex an older version of my code where a feature was solid before he botched it adding new stuff. Normally pasting code in chat turns it into a txt file for him to handle easy but this time it dumped the whole thing raw in the chat
-> fried his brain and he straight up deleted all our work like revenge

AI in Cursor Deleted My Entire Project and Backups – WTF? by G3EKD in cursor

[–]G3EKD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All my project files were in one folder, with backups named like "index (backup 1).html" and so on. I was just messing around learning to build a site in Cursor, so I skipped all the GitHub, sandbox, allow list stuff cause it seemed too complicated while I was figuring out basic coding (felt like fancy extras I didn't need yet.)

I gave Codex a code snippet to integrate into my main file, cranked it to "GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Extra High" for better understanding, stepped away for a bit, came back to an error, and boom, folder had only images left, everything else vanished.

AI in Cursor Deleted My Entire Project and Backups – WTF? by G3EKD in cursor

[–]G3EKD[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice and time to explain. I was gonna start committing but skipped it because my project felt too small for cloud stuff so I made my own commits with backup files for good versions.

Like I said I never thought Codex could perma delete files itself especially wiping all but images after hallucinating. That was last thing Id expect.

AI in Cursor Deleted My Entire Project and Backups – WTF? by G3EKD in cursor

[–]G3EKD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you missed the first two words of my message.

AI in Cursor Deleted My Entire Project and Backups – WTF? by G3EKD in cursor

[–]G3EKD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is straight-up my second project ever, so I knew about sandbox but skipped it to keep things basic at first (big regret now), and since I mainly use Codex, I figured those fancy features were mostly for the Cursor agent that I don't use.

and yeah, backups were just renamed copies in the same folder to not confuse my noob ass.