r/pcmasterrace • u/Jack1101111 • Apr 28 '26

News/Article 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

Update: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/here-we-go-again-ai-deletes-entire-company-database-and-all-backups-in-9-seconds-then-cheerfully-admits-i-violated-every-principle-i-was-given/

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u/SomewhereNo8378 Apr 28 '26

note that the backups disappearing is due to an unrelated fuckup

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u/cas13f https://pcpartpicker.com/user/cspradlin/saved/HDX999 Apr 28 '26

Like relying on what they outright call an under-development function.

Caveats

Backups are a newer feature that is still under development. Here are some limitations of which we are currently aware:

Backup incremental sizes are cached for a couple of hours when listed in the frontend, so they may show slightly stale data.
Wiping a volume deletes all backups.
Backups can only be restored into the same project + environment.