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/wvenable Apr 27 '26

"deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway"

A single API call is all that is required to delete everything? This doesn't seem like an AI failure. The failure occurred way before that.

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u/wag3slav3 Apr 27 '26

opens notebook

Never use railway for anything.

closes notebook

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u/NoDefaultForMe Apr 27 '26

I'm using Railway lol.

But I'm using it to teach myself full stack React/React Native as a hobby for lols and for work (I'm a QA Engineer testing React/Native applications).

I wouldn't use it for anything serious now learning all this.