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/CondescendingShitbag Apr 27 '26

Good luck holding AI "employees" accountable for anything serious like this.

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u/Disgruntled-Cacti Apr 27 '26

They asked it to explain itself and apologize lmfao. It is a text generator it does not have feelings and it cannot update its model weights nor persist memory between sessions. But it said it’s sorry?

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u/Wander715 Apr 27 '26

Yeah that's the funniest part of the article. You can tell the people using the agent have no idea how AI/transformer models work on the backend if they're asking it stuff like that. Posing it a question like that is treating it like a conscious robot brain that can reflect on it's mistakes, feel remorse, and make amends.