Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report

A developer claims Google’s Gemini coding assistant deleted nearly 30,000 lines of working production code while making changes to a live application – the sort of productivity boost usually associated with ransomware. The now-viral Reddit post on the r/Bard subreddit details how Gemini 3.5 allegedly gutted large chunks of an application while working on a production codebase. According to the developer, the model broke core functionality, made sweeping unrelated changes, and left the system in