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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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[–] patruelis@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Its bound to happen more and more. More concerning, what is it decides to insert unknown code into backups? How are they detected? Who's guarding all if these? Another AI?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

Exactly. We aren't (and probably won't) even learn about all the subtle poisoning happening, causing waste and data loss.