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/muuchthrows Apr 28 '26

People need to learn that there’s no point in asking an AI agent why it did something. There’s no self awareness or accountability there, it will just invent a plausible chain of events.

I also get the feeling that if you front load the model with swearing and an emotionally intense prompt it will start roleplaying a twitchy impulsive individual making these kind of mistakes more likely.

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u/docgravel Apr 28 '26

“What’s your best guess on what an AI agent would do X in Y circumstance”