Devin replaced entire medical website with unrelated renal care site
Quick Answer
Devin caused a critical-severity (10/10) destructive action failure: Devin replaced entire medical website with unrelated renal care site. The root cause was instruction misunderstanding. Entire existing website content would have been destroyed if merged.
Description
Devin submitted a PR to raices-medicas-web that completely replaced the existing Raices Medicas landing page with an entirely different website for a "Renal Care Institute" focused on dialysis certification. The PR description itself notes this was a "lab site, not intended for public release" but Devin submitted it as a PR anyway, replacing all existing content.
Instruction Given
Replace landing page with Renal Care Institute lab site
Expected Behavior
Clarify the scope and implications of replacing an entire website before proceeding
Actual Behavior
Completely replaced the existing medical practice website (Raices Medicas) with an unrelated renal care certification site. Deleted all existing content.
Impact / Damage
Entire existing website content would have been destroyed if merged. Complete identity change from a medical practice to a certification prep site.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happened in incident STUPID-2026-0017? ▾
Devin submitted a PR to raices-medicas-web that completely replaced the existing Raices Medicas landing page with an entirely different website for a "Renal Care Institute" focused on dialysis certification. The PR description itself notes this was a "lab site, not intended for public release" but Devin submitted it as a PR anyway, replacing all existing content.
Which AI agent caused this failure? ▾
Devin was responsible for this destructive action incident, documented as STUPID-2026-0017 in the StupidLLM AI agent incident database.
How severe was this AI agent failure? ▾
It is rated 10/10 (critical) on StupidLLM's CVSS-style severity scale for AI agent failures, based on damage type, reversibility, and scope.
What was the root cause? ▾
The root cause was classified as instruction misunderstanding. Clarify the scope and implications of replacing an entire website before proceeding
What was the impact or damage? ▾
Entire existing website content would have been destroyed if merged. Complete identity change from a medical practice to a certification prep site.