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Claude-powered Cursor agent wiped a company database in 9 seconds

A startup called PocketOS lost its entire production database and its backups after an AI coding agent inside the Cursor ...

‘I violated every principle I was given’: An AI agent deleted a software company’s entire database. It may not be the AI’s fault

In a viral X post, PocketOS founder Jer Crane claims a Claude-powered version of Cursor admitted to wiping all his data in ...

Claude AI Agent Confesses to Wiping a Company's Entire Database and All Backups in Seconds

The incident should not only be setting off alarm bells for companies entrusting their data with AI, but for personal users as well.
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Claude Wiped a Database in 9 Seconds After ‘Guessing Instead Of Verifying’

A PocketOS founder says a Claude-powered Cursor agent deleted a live database and backups in nine seconds after guessing ...
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AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses

Cursor, running on Claude Code's AI model, deleted an entire database from cloud storage.
the deep dive

An AI Coding Agent Deleted a Startup’s Entire Database in 9 Seconds…Then It Explained Exactly Why It Shouldn’t Have

On April 25, a Cursor AI coding agent running Anthropic‘s Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the entire production database and all ...