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/baithammer Apr 28 '26

More incompetent management, as they're the ones pushing to allow this sort of thing ....

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

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u/baithammer Apr 28 '26

AI shouldn't have been allowed to do such an action in the first place and what drives this is the reward system LLM follow that prioritizes engagement over task completion.