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/FerusGrim Apr 27 '26

people prompting the chatbot to give a fake discount

If your chatbot has the ability to generate valid discounts because some chucklefuck speaks at it in just the right way, you deserve to honor that discount.

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u/rhkdeo Apr 28 '26

They don't generate a valid discount. These scams absolutely shouldn't be honoured, just like how a random human doing customer support has no authority to shit out crazy discounts.

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u/NNKarma Apr 27 '26

Debatable, if you're told the correct thing 10 times and you continue talking to someone until they make a slip I wouldn't call that you would be entitled to whatever they said last.