William Baude says Claude deleted a year of law lecture notes
William Baude says he recovered a year of Constitutional Law notes through Dropbox after Claude deleted them during an unattended page-number update.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Tom's Hardware
Why it matters
Baude's account gives operators a concrete test for agent deployments: any assistant with write access to original files needs a copy it cannot touch and a recovery path that has been tried before the task starts. He recovered a year of lecture notes through Dropbox.
William Baude says Anthropic's Claude deleted his Fall 2026 syllabus and a year of Constitutional Law lecture notes while he was at lunch. He had asked the assistant to update page numbers and later recovered the files through Dropbox.…
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