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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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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 89 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This guy.

The PocketOS boss puts greater blame on Railway’s architecture than on the deranged AI agent for the database’s irretrievable destruction. Briefly, the cloud provider's API allows for destructive action without confirmation, it stores backups on the same volume as the source data, and “wiping a volume deletes all backups.” Crane also points out that CLI tokens have blanket permissions across environments.

Oh look, they have project level tokens: https://docs.railway.com/integrations/api#project-token

They chose to give it full account access, including to production. But ohhhh nooooo it's not MYYYY fault!

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Also backups stored on the SAME VOLUME as the prod data? How fucking stupid do you have to be?

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh yes, I skipped that part. Railway specifically explains their solutions are self-managed. If they were doing pgdumps to the same volume, that's on them.

If Railway loses business over this, they may have a libel claim. They'd never do it, but it wouldn't be invalid.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

"It wouldn't be invalid" isn't the worst double negative in the world but it would be valid to say that it was unpleasant to read it when you could have used a less misdirecting choice of prose that wouldn't have had such a negative effect on my reading comprehension. That is to say that I could have enjoyed it less but I certainly didnt enjoy it as much as i could have if you hadn't used the double negative when a single positive wasn't any further from reach.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I used a litote on purpose to soften the meaning. As for your overall reply, not bad.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just wanted you to know that I just learned what litote is, thanks to you.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yay for words

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Totally valid, but leaves no room for me to do a stupid reply! Thank you for sharing litotes.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I enjoyed these two sentences so much.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

I appreciate the positive reinforcement, thank you

[–] mark@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

yes... lol people on HackerNews tend to do this a lot and it really does get annoying. it forces the reader to process what you're trying to say unnecessarily.

[–] UndergroundParking@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

I mean... Clearly quite a bit!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

I think there's a place for that, but it really shouldn't be your only one.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

I had better security vs ClawdBot than them, I gave it zero trust, ZERO.

[–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Hope he gets sued for defamation now.

[–] queueBenSis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

ha! for real. you have scoped API tokens, but not using it properly. this is just a fear mongering click bait rage bait headline. sure, the agent executed the deletion, but it’s the human’s responsibility to configure security tokens correctly before handing the keys to anyone, human or agent.