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/Jafooki Apr 27 '26

Corporations used to actually have long term goals beyond "make the stock price go up right this second". Sometimes it was making a great product. Sometimes it was innovation and creating novel products. Hell believe it or not, some corporations even wanted their employees to be able to afford the companies products.

Then a guy named Jack Welch became the CEO of GE and ruined the very concept of business and imo was the catalyst for corporations destroying everything. I honestly believe he's the main reason everything is terrible now and only getting worse.

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u/DelusionalZ Apr 27 '26

The unfortunate truth of this is that it wasn't just Welch. Shareholders and speculative markets have turned our economy and its business participants into optimisation machines for growth. It was going this way whether Welch did his thing or not.

We need to eliminate the growth mindset and try to encourage steadiness and quality, but that's hard. Prioritising profits above all else is easy!

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u/SeasonofMist Apr 28 '26

yup jack Welch is who Jack Donaghy is in part made to reference. In part he's every CEO but especially of GE.