How are you going to notice that while working on ~/projects/acme3000 it for some reason deleted ~/photos/2003/once-in-a-lifetime-holiday/?
Backups are great when you know you need to restore.
Backups are great when you know you need to restore.
Of course, AI is not a real person, and it does make mistakes that you or I probably would not. However, this class of mistake—deleting completely unrelated directories—does not appear to be a common failure mode. (Something like deleting all of ~ doesn’t count here—that would be immediately noticeable and could be restored from a backup.)
(Disclaimer, I’m not OP and I wouldn’t run Claude with —-dangerously-skip-permissions on my own system)
If it is a directory that gets deleted, then you can diff it with a previous state. If you don't control the state and don't know the surface area that you should observe, then yes, you're inviting trouble if agents run amok.