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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This was on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524

Twitter link: https://xcancel.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

Hacker New's sentiment on this from the comments I've read is that it is the author's own fault.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As much as I want to blame AI for this, there are many hurdles for the user to get through to even allow Claude to do that. I'd be very suprised if that's not user error.

[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Regardless of what one thinks about AI, it seems to me that only a long series of really bad a decisions could lead to something like this happening.