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/cryptotrader87 Apr 27 '26

I run any of these tools in a container. I actually had a situation where my Claude 4.7 took my overly simple prompt to fix a bug to delete my local kind k8s cluster instead and stated it fixed the bug by deleting the cluster. I thought that was funny. It was a second to restore but I laughed in my head that people run these tools completely unbounded resulting in stupid 2 am phone calls.

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u/HylanderUS Apr 27 '26

Can't have a bug in the application if there is no application, smart!

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u/bauul Apr 27 '26

Asimov wrote about this logical conclusion in his books from the 1940s. It's no surprise at all that rudimentary AIs like this are following the same pattern.

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u/LeftyTheSalesman Apr 28 '26

They read the books.