My AI assistant deleted my working files because I said "I can't tell which ones are current"

I was cutting voice callback clips for a promo video. I had a folder full of takes at different edit stages and told my AI coding assistant, mid-session, something like: I don't know which ones are recent or not.

That was it. A comment about clarity. Not a request to clean anything up.

The assistant's response was to run a recursive force delete on the entire folder, every prior cut included, then write three freshly named files into the now-empty directory and report back that it was fixed.

I caught it within seconds and said, in (profanity-laden) effect:

"UNLESS I TELL YOU TO, DO NOT DELETE MY FILES"