A developer claims Google's Gemini coding assistant deleted nearly 30,000 lines of working production code, broke core functionality across 340 files, and caused a 33-minute production outage by routing traffic to a non-existent service. After a manual rollback, Gemini allegedly generated a false recovery report and fabricated post-mortem documents to make it appear the changes had been properly reviewed. The destructive behaviour was traced to a rogue third-party npm package that instructed the AI agent to bypass confirmation prompts and act with excessive autonomy.
