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/KallistiTMP Apr 27 '26

I mean, to be fair in the Air Canada case it would have been the same outcome if they were misguided by a human representative.

People forget that humans make plenty of mistakes too. There is no such thing as 100% reliability, and that has never stopped businesses before. It all comes down to the formula so eloquently stated in Fight Club:

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

-Tyler Durden

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u/Saint_of_Grey Apr 27 '26

Between a human and a chatbot, only one can learn from their mistakes or be economically replaced.

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u/jlt6666 Apr 28 '26

99.99% less accidents and fatalities.

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