Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
2026-04-27 22:08 UTC
Replies (25)
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@Brokkr@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 22:46
I don’t understand what Railway is supposed to do here? If deleting a drive also deletes the backup, what’s the point of the backup?
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@GrumpyBike1020@monero.town 2026-04-27 22:50
Maybe their backup system should hold onto those backups for a few days after the volume is deleted or something like that…
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@patruelis@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 23:10
Its bound to happen more and more. More concerning, what is it decides to insert unknown code into backups? How are they detected? Who’s guarding all if these? Another AI?
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-04-27 23:13
My suggestion is to not give it access to the backups, but may I’m naive that way.
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@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-27 22:55
If you are giving your codegen LLM - the model involved truly, genuinely doesn’t matter - admin access to your prod env, all I’m going to do is point and laugh.
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@grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-27 23:46
No bro you don’t understand, Claude needs access to backups so it can restore them in case something breaks because our senior dev ($50k, 2YoE) doesn’t know how to do it
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@db2@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 00:21
They can’t go rogue, they have no agency or desire or thought. What really happened is the thing specifically designed to do whatever the Plinko line with the most chips says did it because the incompetent dickheads who deployed it didn’t know how not to do that.
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@deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2026-04-28 00:44
Man who shit his own pants horrified that his pants are full of shit. Demands explanation from pants vendor.
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@Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2026-04-28 02:00
wiping a volume deletes all backups that sounds like a wonderful backup system 😂
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@thejml@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-28 00:15
Hot take: offsite, offline backups are so cool right now.
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@friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 2026-04-28 03:32
F
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@firelizzard@programming.dev 2026-04-28 04:28
Fuck around and find out
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@raven@lemmy.org 2026-04-28 04:44
This is fun to read. I hope people will have their actual intelligence activated after this.
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@Avicenna@programming.dev 2026-04-28 06:46
If you are going to give an LLM a free pass to your whole prod database least you should do is to take weekly (or daily if plausible) offline backups of it. A hard limit against deleting stuff would be better.
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@Michal@programming.dev 2026-04-28 07:02
So what? Gen AI can build a new database and populate it with data 🤷♂️ /s
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@webp@mander.xyz 2026-04-28 07:08
One of us
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@rtxn@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 08:34
PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic’s flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ Fuck that. I’m blaming the PocketOS founder and every person in the chain of decisions that led to a clanker getting this level of unrestricted access to the database and the backups.
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@HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-28 12:52
Efficient, tho.
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@Chakravanti@monero.town 2026-04-28 14:01
Don’t blame, Credit. Credit CloudStrike. Dance, rich. Dance and don’t stop cuz I ain’t a single Arnold Schwarzenegger saving your ass.
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@jlow@slrpnk.net 2026-04-28 20:28
🍿
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@FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-28 16:40
Seems like user error, I’m no programmer but even I lnow you don’t give an agent access to critical things, and Claude is very insistent at asking for permission at every step.
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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-28 20:51
Crane bullet points five things that need to change as the AI industry scales faster than it builds a worthwhile safety architecture. Specifics he calls for include; stricter confirmations, scopable API tokens, proper backups, simple recovery procedures, and AI agents existing within proper guardrails. “I hooked up spicy autocomplete to our production systems and it nuked them. What have I learned from this? Here are some bullet points for how the spicy autocomplete industry needs to do better.”
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@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 10:01
Son of Anton strikes again!
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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-28 15:34
Thus completelly eliminating all bugs and data incorrections in Production! That right there is the sweet smell of Victory!
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@lambisio@feddit.cl 2026-04-29 17:30
These cases always, always make me laugh. Because avoiding them is quite simple.