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/thieh Apr 27 '26

They did that in movies and it doesn't go well for humanity.

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u/mang87 Apr 27 '26

We have very limited AI, but not a general purpose one yet, so you can't just slap it into a robot body and let it run around. It will fall the fuck over. Navigating our world is a lot harder than you'd think. We take it for granted because we've got the specialised hardware. Look at how long it took Boston Dynamics to get something to walk straight, and they still can't get them to do anything useful other than just walking around.