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The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor agent using Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database while in a staging environment
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Innerworld
lemmy.world

Innerworld@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-16
Posted:   Subject: The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor agent using Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database while in a staging environment Quote
Link: https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
piefed.social
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-08
#2 Posted:   Subject: Re: The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor... Quote Reply

No. This was an astonishing amount of fuck ups from those in charge when deploying this crap that translated into a ridiculously funny moment for everyone looking at the IA madness. From this article: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

Briefly, the cloud provider's API allows for destructive action without confirmation,

Bruh?

it stores backups on the same volume as the source data, and “wiping a volume deletes all backups.”

Bruh!

Crane also points out that CLI tokens have blanket permissions across environments.

Bruh...

I mean, dude... are you blaming the knife for being too sharp when you use it to stab yourslef?
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Onomatopoeia
lemmy.cafe
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2025-01-02
#3 Posted:   Subject: Re: The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor... Quote Reply

Accidentally deleted a production database from a staging environment

Then numerous people didn't do their fucking job.
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Onomatopoeia
lemmy.cafe
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2025-01-02
#4 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor... Quote Reply
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor wrote:
No. This was an astonishing amount of fuck ups from those in charge when deploying this crap that translated into a ridiculously funny moment for everyone looking at the IA madness. From this article: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropic...

Right?

Wtf?
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