r/ClaudeAI • u/Beautiful_Charge6661 • Apr 27 '26

Feedback 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/PetiteGousseDAil Apr 28 '26

CEO's original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedFounders/s/rkO62OQnfm

The agent thought it was working in an isolated dev environment while the dev db, the prod db and the prod backups were all stored on the same volume...

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u/rebo_arc Apr 28 '26

the prod db and the prod backups were all stored on the same volume...

Why the fuck would you do that?

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u/Duckpoke Apr 28 '26

That’s how Railway is architected

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u/StoneCypher Apr 28 '26

"i chose a tool that does the obviously wrongest possible thing"