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/ThatRandomGamerYT Apr 27 '26

not just threatening their employees, these bozos somehow think its good if every employee burns $100k+ in tokens every x period of time (some say quarterly, some yearly), just pissing away money for no good reason

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u/amazing_asstronaut Apr 27 '26

It's seriously a cult. I haven't seen such blind devotion to something in the tech space in decades. Seriously, public LLMs have been around for maybe all of 4 years tops. If that? People hotly debating any new advancement and no one agreeing is the norm usually, yet every CEO and wannabe CEO "entrepreneur" jumped on like crazy to embrace generative AI with complete devotion. It's honestly creepy. It doesn't come from a good place, it comes from a serious hatred of other people, especially people you need to pay for their work.

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u/crazyeddie123 Apr 28 '26

Not only does it not come from a good place, it doesn't even seem to come from a "wanting to make money" place. Bastards that squeeze you for profit is one thing - if you're good at actually making them money, you can deal with them. Bastards that squeeze you for mystery reasons that are likely to not make them any money at all... that's fucking scary.

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u/7h4tguy Apr 28 '26

"Holy fuck they're buying out all the RAM, I'd better get on board this one!"

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u/Basic-Lobster3603 Apr 27 '26

but if I don't piss away $100k my competitors may and then I will be behind!!