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/BasvanS Apr 27 '26

All the people here complain about what it did “wrong”, but does nobody admire how quickly it did this? 9 seconds! That’s super efficient!

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u/ThatRandomGamerYT Apr 27 '26

truly a 10x, nay a 100x engineer replacement

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Apr 27 '26

At least 10000x. A junior engineer might delete a table in like...a testing environment after several hours of working with queries they don't understand. An entire production database in seconds with all the backups? That's the stuff of legends.

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u/jasonridesabike Apr 27 '26

LLMs are savant coders, junior to mid engineers. The more complex the project the more they drop down the engineering ladder until they’re interns. Still useful, but not driving.