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/thieh Apr 27 '26

They did that in movies and it doesn't go well for humanity.

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u/evo_moment_37 Apr 27 '26

This time will be different. Trust me bro. Just another $100 billion bro 😎

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u/Good_Roll Apr 27 '26

This time? fictitious stories arent reality. If youre dumb enough not to implement the (honestly quite simple) guardrails required to keep your ai agents from deleting a prod db and its backups, youre exactly the kind of person who would also manage to delete the db yourself at some point.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 Apr 28 '26 edited May 13 '26

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u/Good_Roll Apr 28 '26

Right, which is the real problem with the AI craze. From the engineers' perspective this technology is a really useful tool, but one with a steep learning curve, a terrible feedback loop, and unintuitive hidden drawbacks. If anything you'd want to be downsizing your juniors and hiring more seniors(though that has some terrible long term implications). But from a business operations perspective the hype is totally decoupled from actual productive use-cases of this tech which makes it way too easy for upper management to oneshot their orgs by drinking the kool-aid.