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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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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also no prompts, ironically, for operations like "Are you sure you want to delete the production database? (y/N)"

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

It’s amateur hour all around lol