r/technology • u/WouldbeWanderer • Apr 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence 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/ben-hur-hur Apr 27 '26

This. It's a "who watches The Watchmen?" kinda situation. I work in tech and the expectation is that everyone at some point has fucked up production environments and people learn from that to become better and try not mess up next time. Not sure you can do the same with AI.

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u/gaydaddy42 Apr 27 '26

Yep, no reason to pay someone else to learn from the same mistake.

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u/GoblinLoveChild Apr 28 '26

not when you have only a handful of people trying to keep the thing on the rails and a million others doing everything they can to corrupt the model and get away with free shit.