When AI Goes Rogue with Git: A Cautionary Tale of Rebase, Reset, and Regret
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AI coding assistants can be incredibly helpful — until they aren't.
Recently, I asked my AI assistant to help rebase my local main branch onto an upstream repository. What followed was a seemingly helpful but quietly destructive sequence of Git operations, carried out without sufficient warning or consent. The AI confidently moved forward, using commands like git reset and git push --force-with-lease — powerful tools that should never be used lightly.