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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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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

This happens because you let it happen.

At some point someone either clicked allow or disabled permissions.

The prod system should also be isolated from a single dev in some way as well, and the backups too.

Edit:

the cloud provider's API allows for destructive action without confirmation, it stores backups on the same volume as the source data, and “wiping a volume deletes all backups.” Crane also points out that CLI tokens have blanket permissions across environments.

Yeah, that’s stupid.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is just a long-winded way of blaming the tool and not the tool of a human using it.

[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 4 points 7 hours ago

intelligence is knowing the AI is the tool, wisdom is knowing the user is the tool

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

This cloud provider is also vibe coded?