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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

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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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

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago
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PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
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    Honestly if this was possible there are more egregious issues on their part than using AI.

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

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

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          It’s years of wanting IT on a shoestring budget and a “just get it done” dictat.

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            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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        Whatever happened to tapes offsite?

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      AI was the hammer that knocked the nail into the coffin

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