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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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[–] db2@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

They can't go rogue, they have no agency or desire or thought. What really happened is the thing specifically designed to do whatever the Plinko line with the most chips says did it because the incompetent dickheads who deployed it didn't know how not to do that.