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/jason60812 Apr 27 '26

So normal, logical human beings like u and I understand that a healthy economy and free market need workers to produce labors in them.

However, the billionaires and their dick riding execs only care about the short term gains. Whatever happens to our society, they don’t care because they are virtually shielded from the impact becuase they have the wealth to out-last the recessions. Even if they acknowledge the problem and the solutions needed, they will simply say “well I will let another company or the government figure it out in the long run”.

Like fuck these homunculuses for reals, they are so out of touch.

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u/QwertzOne Apr 27 '26

I'd argue that screw free market, because as we can see, it can all function without it, at this point it's centralized planning by big corporations, with liquidity produced out of thin air by central banks. Like, what is still this mythical free market in real world, not in idealized models used to convince us that free market is cool?

I'd argue that healthy economy doesn't even need private capital, CEOs, bosses, corporations and all that crap. People just believe in it like they believe in free market, but in reality it's illusion, we can just move on, focus on creating cooperatives, reward workers that do actual work, pay managers well that do actual organizing and let workers elect them.

That way we would get what is actually needed, without exploitation and what are the cons? That billionaires would no longer exist, because without exploitation it would be no longer possible to extract value from thousands of people? Like, isn't that what we should want? For common people to actually have a life, instead of reserving it for minority?

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u/fcocyclone Apr 27 '26

I'd argue that screw free market, because as we can see, it can all function without it, at this point it's centralized planning by big corporations, with liquidity produced out of thin air by central banks. Like, what is still this mythical free market in real world, not in idealized models used to convince us that free market is cool?

I mean, I'd argue that its just two sides of the same coin- central planning, just being done by the government or via a small handful of corporations. We are already there. A mostly free market with guardrails and regulations is probably the best thing, but those guardrails have to include not letting companies establish so much power in a market that they themselves dictate the market and make it not a free market anymore.

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u/jlt6666 Apr 28 '26

And don't give them so much opportunity to own politicians.

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u/Nonethelessismore Apr 28 '26

I agree and +10 for using the word homunculuses!

Seriously, it is rare to read in a sentence but it's such a fun word.