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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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[–] 57 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

If your backups are stored alongside your production data THEY ARE NOT BACKUPS

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The truth is many firms out there don't have the slightest notion of how to do software engineering properly.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's years of wanting IT on a shoestring budget and a "just get it done" dictat.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Not necessarily. I had a student intern at a shop where everybody just directly edited prod and there was no version control system.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    At my first job, the software was configured by directly manipulating the SQL database, using UPDATE statements that were created by Excel macros.
    The Testing database doubled as the only backup.
    They didn't have Remote Desktop licenses for the server, so only 2 people could work on it simultaneously using admin accounts.
    Everyone down to first level support and the secretary had domain admin rights.

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