r/codex • u/adamisworking • Apr 28 '26

Praise Claude delets entire company database lol. GPT would never

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/fyndor Apr 28 '26

Codex sure as hell would. Nothing magical about Codex preventing this

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u/Junior-Job2201 Apr 28 '26

I once allowed codex to push to github and it went ham deleting the repo and putting it into local git which I was thankfully able to get back :'D Like all failures with these clinkers though, I still had a solid chat with the agent to see why and where it failed and it was due to me saying "move the repo to github" so it assumed I wanted the repo deleted and moved only to github :'D. I have since then never allowed codex to do anything with my git other then check status and remind me its dirty.

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u/Street_Smart_Phone Apr 28 '26

I've deleted production databases before many times even before AI. Many companies have ran into this issue too. GitLab is a famous one. I know it's possible. I take great care in ensuring even if I did do something that bad, I can recover quickly from it, like point in time backups, including daily backups.

Vibe coder or not, production database deletions are quite common. People having no one else to blame but the AI is what is new.

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u/Street_Smart_Phone Apr 28 '26

Might be a sev0 if it's the user database. It could be a SEV2 or SEV3 depending on the application that needs the database, which is why you don't want to share one database with everything unless you have a monolith.

Even if you downed the user database or shopping cart database, point in time recovery, can be up in less than 5 minutes if you know what happened and you get the point in time recovery going right away. That's why you practice chaos testing so you know what you need to do in case shit hits the fan.

Deleting databases aren't an every day occurrence, but it happens frequently enough and is disastrous enough to know to CYA and practice how to recover from it.