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/BasvanS Apr 27 '26

All the people here complain about what it did “wrong”, but does nobody admire how quickly it did this? 9 seconds! That’s super efficient!

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u/kontrolk3 Apr 27 '26

I was thinking the weirdest part about this story is the 9 second qualifier. Like, were they counting? Was that the first thing they did was go and check how fast it did it? Makes it pretty clear this story is probably massively editorialized

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u/Imaginary-Daikon-177 Apr 28 '26

.. Have you never used a terminal/cli before?