Clowns to the Left of Me

>Amusingly there’s also quite a few comments like “oops I deleted my whole file system, what do I do now?” or “I’m not a programmer and I got Copilot to build my product but now it’s broken and won’t change anything - I want my money back”.

I think one of the unfortunate situations with the sort of hyping everything up to 11 on the internet is that a lot of these stories aren't truly end times drama. Many of them are titled like that and present what seems like a potentially dramatic story, but they're really "Hey I saw this, those of you in the know might want to know this can happen."

The deleting files stories I've seen repeatedly, but the content of the story is really more about someone experimenting / good info.

I recently posted a story from a very technical source on another site and it was a great article, but the title was a little dramatic. The knee-jerk response by many people was to complain (probably just read the title) about how the recommendation was too broad / doesn't apply to most people... well yeah the article didn't even say you should do that thing ...

I see it with blogs that talk about mistakes, folks jump in to wag their finger when the person who wrote the blog already learned their lesson. They're not proposing you do it the same, they're talking about their mistakes.

I get it, I do it too, but sometimes we respond to everything as if it's some absurd claim when sometimes it's more measured.