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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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[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Well, it sounds like they totally deserved the failure. Asking a text prediction machine to "do" something is going to end up like this. In pursuit of efficiency, we have let morons and moronic products do things, they were not meant to do.