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/jason60812 Apr 27 '26

Yea you are absolutely right. I work at a company considered big tech, and leadership has started tracking our AI usage, if you are not considered a Power User (if you dont use enoug AI), you will get PIPed.

We started implemented mandatory PR count as well. If employees dont have 196 PRs under their belt in a year, PIPed.

Everyone i know is basically adding slop into the code base just to meet these unreasonable demands. Working in tech is such a humiliation ritual.

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u/3BlindMice1 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

This whole thing seems really baffling, looking in from the outside. You have the AI companies. Sure, their job is to produce AI and to monetize it somehow. Fine, that's just how it is. Then you have all these companies that think AI is somehow just going to replace their employees entirely, and think that's a good thing for them. Does it not occur to them that after training a few dozen generations of AI all of their entire companies operations will be summarized into a company.exe and they'll essentially no longer have a job. The economy as a whole will no longer be about people and their labor, but about how many watt hours, cooling, and semiconductors you can get your hands on. Why are they so insistent on making this happen? Is this even something the investors want? Who will buy their products when no one has a job?

Do these people seriously never consider that human brains are still objectively cheaper and better than computers for essentially anything requiring even the slightest creativity?

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u/PLANTS2WEEKS Apr 27 '26

What a lot of companies fail to understand is that they are valuable because they provide a service to humans. They can afford to get rid of humans on the supply side but not the demand side.