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# Logitech (accidentally?) commits a cardinal sin of Mac software
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/logitech-accidentally-commits-a-cardinal-sin-of-mac-software/
- Published: 2024-04-24T19:00:58.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-24T19:00:58.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Stephen Hackett first reported this](https://512pixels.net/2024/04/ai-overlay-tmp-home-folder-mac-os/?ref=birchtree.me) yesterday and it was so wild I almost didn't believe it at first.

> After some searching online, it seems that this folder was generated by [Logi Options+](https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-options-plus.html?ref=birchtree.me), the software that came with my mouse, [the Logitech MX Master 3S.](https://amzn.to/4aLEwiG?ref=birchtree.me)  
>  
> Version 1.70 of Logi Options+ launched last week with — I kid you not — [AI tools you can launch anywhere your cursor is located](https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-ai-prompt-builder.html?ref=birchtree.me)

Now I don't have any particular beef with this feature in the first place. One of the things I like about Raycast AI is having a chatbot right where I'm already working; bringing up a similar UI with a mouse button doesn't seem bad to me, assuming you want it.

But adding a folder to the user's home directory is wild and not something I think I can recall an app ever doing in my (gulp) nearly 30 years using a Mac 🥴

Based on the name of the folder and its location, I'm going to bet this is a bug that amounts to some debug process that slipped through QA and got into the production build. That's not excusing it, but I do suspect someone at Logitech saw this story and went, "shit, we screwed up" rather than, "damn, they found our secret folder we totally wanted to be there."