Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds
— backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
The founder of PocketOS has penned a social media post to warn others about the “systemic failures” of flagship AI and digital services providers.
Jer Crane was inspired to write a public response after an AI coding agent deleted his firm’s entire production database.
The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.
This tag team of digital trouble has wiped out months of consumer data essential to the firm’s, and its customers, businesses.
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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