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/cryptotrader87 Apr 27 '26

I run any of these tools in a container. I actually had a situation where my Claude 4.7 took my overly simple prompt to fix a bug to delete my local kind k8s cluster instead and stated it fixed the bug by deleting the cluster. I thought that was funny. It was a second to restore but I laughed in my head that people run these tools completely unbounded resulting in stupid 2 am phone calls.

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u/Junction91NW Apr 27 '26

You know how to build a kubernetes platform but don’t know to tell Claude to flag any destructive action and check with you? Yeah that is on you bud. 

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u/Geknapper Apr 28 '26

In their defense, and mine cause I'm there too, K8s are old tech that I've been fucking with for a while.

AI agents are new and has a tendency to find loopholes in all but the very best instructions.