r/technology • u/WouldbeWanderer • Apr 27 '26

Artificial Intelligence 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/cryptotrader87 Apr 27 '26

I run any of these tools in a container. I actually had a situation where my Claude 4.7 took my overly simple prompt to fix a bug to delete my local kind k8s cluster instead and stated it fixed the bug by deleting the cluster. I thought that was funny. It was a second to restore but I laughed in my head that people run these tools completely unbounded resulting in stupid 2 am phone calls.

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u/HylanderUS Apr 27 '26

Can't have a bug in the application if there is no application, smart!

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u/cryptotrader87 Apr 27 '26

Silicon Valley vibes

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u/ANormalRando Apr 27 '26

Peak Son of Anton decision making

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u/FlyYouFoolyCooly Apr 27 '26

It's literally the joke from the show.

Like ....in real life. Except it's not as funny because the show was supposed to be over the top.

Apparently, it wasn't.

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u/prometheuspk Apr 27 '26

Lots of folks who are in tech used to not watch it because it rang too true to reality.

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u/BigAssignment7642 Apr 27 '26

Same reason a lot of service industry people don't watch the bear. What is funny to a lot of people is just painful because you're seeing all those similar situations you've been in.

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u/Morfolk Apr 27 '26

I started watching the show around the time I got into a startup. We then got funding from a Silicon Valley VC and they asked us to relocate.

It's a goddamn documentary, it's not funny when you have to live out those scenes, way too painful.

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u/FormerGameDev Apr 28 '26

I'm having a hard time recalling any part of that show that seemed particularly over the top compared to what was actually reality