Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds

[rcjordan]

 — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue | Tom's Hardware

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

[ergophobe]

I remember way back they used to have a satirical dictionary definition.

computer: device capable of making as many errors in 10 seconds as 100 humans working for 100 years.

In any case, that's really unfortunate.

It's also a bit odd to me that you would give a coding bot access to production data and that data wouldn't get backed up somewhere siloed.

I guess that's the whole thing though - a lot of engineering time is spent on deployment, which means that if you want it to help with deployment, it has to have a lot of privileges on the production environment.

A case of Spiderman Syndrome (with great power...)