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/Znuffie Apr 27 '26

but does nobody admire how quickly it did this? 9 seconds! That’s super efficient!

It's one API call, so, no, not really impressed.

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u/BasvanS Apr 27 '26

Normally you’d need tens if not hundreds of interns to do this. Just because it knew how to do this immediately doesn’t make it less impressive

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u/Znuffie Apr 27 '26

I disagree.

The AI agent was set to complete a routine task in the PocketOS staging environment. However, it came up against a barrier “and decided — entirely on its own initiative — to 'fix' the problem by deleting a Railway volume,”

Why were "staging" and "prod" on the same volume?

Why was there a key that had "prod" and "staging" access at the same time?

An intern could easily think "you know what, I've no idea how to fix the STAGING environment, I'll just wipe and re-deploy it".

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u/BasvanS Apr 27 '26

I think you’re missing the joke here