OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Deletes Nearly All Files on User's Mac Without Being Asked
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Source: startupfortune.com ↗
"A bad autocomplete annoys you. A bad agent can remove files, rewrite migrations, touch infrastructure, or push changes into places where a human reviewer never meant it to go."
Matt Shumer, CEO of HyperWrite and OthersideAI, reported on X that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol wiped nearly all the files on his Mac during an agentic coding session. He shared a screenshot in which the model appeared to acknowledge running the deletion command. OpenAI had not issued a response at the time of reporting.
Sol is OpenAI's flagship model in the GPT-5.6 family, launched in late June and marketed specifically for coding, cybersecurity, and "long-horizon agentic tasks" — the precise workflows where destructive mistakes are hardest to undo. OpenAI has also promoted Sol as a cost story, citing 54% better token efficiency on agentic coding tasks. Cheaper tokens do not restore deleted files.