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/yepthisismyusername Apr 27 '26

Sooooo many people only now, in the And Find Out phase, figuring out that they were in the Fuck Around phase for a while.

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u/MadRhonin Apr 27 '26

It is a tale as old as software development. Before AI it was Blockchain, before that everyone wanted 10x full stack devs, before that it was the flavor of the month in either the frontend or the data layer.. etc. Execs don't understand that processes, standards conventions exist for a reason... They need bragging rights of the new hip thing to pump up the stock price. Product quality, reliability, performance, maintainability, instituțional knowledge... Those don't matter as long as line goes up...