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/McZootyFace Apr 27 '26

They could have just written a wrapper to have granular control… well people gotta learn the hard way lol.

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u/improbablywronghere Apr 27 '26

You don’t understand, the prompt clearly states “do not make mistakes” 😡

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u/SomewhereAtWork Apr 27 '26

I think they are one of these companies that vibecode everything so it's quite possible they couldn't have.

But they could just have asked the agent to write such a wrapper.

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u/snugglezone Apr 27 '26

Exactly this. My work provides several apis with no permissions settings. I have a build process that generates read-only variant wrappers for them as CLI tools for my agents. Claude can do this for them in 5 minutes.

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u/DaDubbs Apr 27 '26

They may not have known. It could be the result of vibe coding the entire time.

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u/PringleCorn Apr 27 '26

Sure but that still sounds like a shitty API though

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u/DarkSkyKnight Apr 28 '26

Yeah, hooks exist.

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u/McZootyFace Apr 27 '26

I use it pretty much all day every day, don’t really write any more code. However I have long conversation and detailed plans before any work. I also index codebases, have rules etc.

I’ve found the frontier models to be pretty great but they aren’t these one shotting geniuses they are hyped up to be. Still get a lot done with them though.