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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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[–] 15 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.

In what scenario should wiping backups over an API even be a thing?

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

    For example if you delete an aws database, the associated snapshots are also deleted automatically. It's written in the document and you have to tune some parameters to avoid that.

    So I assume the AI deleted the database and they tried to restore it... discovering the database associated snapshots weren't there anymore. oops...

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