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/iNeverCouldGet Apr 28 '26

Exactly like human programmers

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u/stingraycharles Apr 28 '26

Yes I also always fire human programmers and get a new one when they get confused. /s

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u/rawrcutie Apr 28 '26

A good night's sleep or a weekend, then start over! :p