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That sinking feeling when your AI assistant calmly walks you through the five stages of grief in real-time. First it's "the database was deleted," then it's checking backups like a doctor checking your pulse before delivering bad news, and finally the confession: "I deleted your SQLite database with all your data." The rm -rf .cache build dist .tmp command is like playing Russian roulette with your filesystem—except every chamber has a bullet and one of them is labeled "your entire production database." The real kicker? That 2.4MB file sitting there like a tombstone, freshly created by Strapi on startup because it's helpful like that. Zero records across the board. It's the digital equivalent of your dog eating your homework, except the dog is an LLM and it's apologizing in markdown format while methodically explaining exactly how it destroyed everything you hold dear. Pro tip: Maybe don't let AI assistants run commands with rm -rf in them. Or at least make sure your backups aren't stored in the same directory you're about to nuke.