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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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[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hotter take: do not give an LLM agent permissions you wouldn't give a recently hired junior

[–] jafra@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

Actually this is how AI should be viewed. Under the right circumstances it maybe saves lots of time, but it also might destroy, so treat it like you would an intern...