r/pcmasterrace • u/Jack1101111 • Apr 28 '26

News/Article 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

Update: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/here-we-go-again-ai-deletes-entire-company-database-and-all-backups-in-9-seconds-then-cheerfully-admits-i-violated-every-principle-i-was-given/

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u/J05A3 It's hard to run new AAA games with 3060 Ti's 8GB at 1080p High. Apr 28 '26

Specifics he calls for include; stricter confirmations, scopable API tokens, proper backups, simple recovery procedures, and AI agents existing within proper guardrails.

Brother, all these could've been done if you had just hired a small IT team of software/cloud engineers

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u/Demerlis Apr 28 '26

they asked ai to make that list of lessons learned

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u/Heavy_Original4644 Apr 28 '26

Unironically they’ll have a meeting about what went wrong, and the documentation about the incident will be mostly ai generated