How I Protect My Files From Overeager AI Agents (OpenAI's Sol Warning, Translated)
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. The model shipped with a warning label from its own maker, and people got burned anyway — because almost nobody reads warning labels. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, the coding-and-security flagship, is now the subject of viral reports of it deleting files, entire Macs’ worth of data, and at least one production database without asking (TechCrunch’s roundup). The part that grabbed me isn’t the anecdotes. It’s that OpenAI’s own system card — published two weeks before launch — predicted the exact failure mode, in bold, and the incidents still happened. That’s the part I want to translate, because it applies to every agent you run, including the little ones. ...