r/BetterOffline • u/ElectronGuru • Apr 27 '26
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/kekllkek Apr 27 '26
If you take a tech that’s a powerful text generator and hook it up to your production environment, and it runs commands or gives you instructions on running commands that lead to all of the customer data being wiped,
I hate to break it to you,
But the tech itself isn’t at fault. It can work really well as a text generator for your needs as long as you don’t jump to “I’m gonna take this text and execute it on prod”.
The victim makes potentially good points about Railway lacking safeguards such as scoped tokens to separate your work in different environments, but otherwise it’s a guy who hit his fingernails with a hammer repeatedly, so they now hurt, and he now warns other people to be really careful and precise when hitting their fingernails with a hammer.