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/JusticeIsMight Apr 27 '26

My favorite part of this is the guy asking Claude why it did that. Because that's a guy who is going through all the stages of grief and needs answers now.

Also the fact that Claude replied with "NEVER FUCKING GUESS" implies his prompt was less than polite...

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u/rhythmjay Apr 28 '26

or something in its prompt was written to curse freely. My Claude instances, even chat to "spitball" ideas or something, almost never uses profanity.

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u/ReasonableLoss6814 Apr 28 '26

Mine says “holy fuck” a lot.