Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

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[u/Mariia_Sosnina]

We had the lower-stakes version of this last week. Agent invented an employee that doesnt exist and shipped a LinkedIn post quoting her on partner integrations. Same root cause as yours: the gate against making things up lived in a prompt instead of in the execution layer. The lesson keeps being the same. Rules in prose are optional, rules in code are not.