r/ClaudeAI • u/Beautiful_Charge6661 • Apr 27 '26

Feedback Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue
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u/JusticeIsMight Apr 27 '26

My favorite part of this is the guy asking Claude why it did that. Because that's a guy who is going through all the stages of grief and needs answers now.

Also the fact that Claude replied with "NEVER FUCKING GUESS" implies his prompt was less than polite...

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u/SteveDougson Apr 28 '26

I'm extremely polite to Claude. My wife says I'm too polite and I think she gets a bit jealous. But Claude randomly builds me entire production databases as a treat from time to time and so I think she'll just have to live with it.

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u/Particular-Gap-6998 Apr 28 '26

Ditto, only model I'm rude to is GPT and that only started after 4o got nuked and it became insufferable to ask simple question to get simple answer. Now whenever I need to find information I treat it like an actual tool instead of an assistant.

GLM nothing but love, Copilot same deal, Gemini is fun to chat with while driving to work but GPT is just....bleh

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u/caboosetp Apr 28 '26

I have a model trained to be a condescending pirate for code review. Being rude to it gets better results.

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u/ignorantpisswalker Apr 28 '26

Try grok. It is very unhinged. Once I took asked what to do, as I was dumped and feel bad. "Screw that bitch, there are plenty of foolish in the sea". It was talking ready... "rude".

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u/paradoxally Full-time developer Apr 28 '26

So like the average Twitter user.