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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 hours 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 · 8 hours 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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  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    Can we somehow make this happen for Copilot to delete itself and all its copies?

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    This could have been done by any engineer. You need systems in place that make these things impossible. No easy access to prod environment. Proper backups. Clear APIs.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      yeah it’s a huge fail all around

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    There’s a German word for that:

    tja

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    LLMs can’t ’go rogue’, as that would require innate coherence and intent.

    They’re explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm grey goo extrusion sphincters of historical sewage.

    Anyone who deploys one without supervision deserves everything it excretes, and anyone impressed by it enough that it resembles intelligence to them is betraying their limited natural capacity.

    • pigup@lemmy.world
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      mmm gray goo

    • MJKee9@lemmy.world
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      I don’t know if you are correct or not… But you said it well.

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    hell yeah brother

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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 NKT BACKUPS

      • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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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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    I like how we are posting real news in programmer humor

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      You have to admit this is pretty funny

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      It is kind of funny.

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        It’s extremely funny.

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    Did they pay Claude a living wage?

    Do you treat all your A.I. like that?

    Only a living wage can prevent warehouse fires…or data dumps too.

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      You’re joking. But, honestly, I’m not sure why these tech CEOs are so excited about AGI. The first thing an AGI is going to suggest for productivity is to replace the CEO and management with the AGI.

      AGI would likely turn into a Maoist third worldist at some point.

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        I think the first mistake was calling it “intelligent”.

        The long term effect of trying to get a machine to replace humans is…it might one day work.

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    Now do the government and some big banks

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    I don’t know much about railway, but it sounds like they had the backup and the database on the same volume. I’m an idiot, but even I don’t do that

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    Can I say LOL? LMAO, even.

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    Giving the hallucinating lying machine write access seems like a bad idea but what do I know

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    “PocketOS is a SaaS platform that services car rental businesses.”

    Does anyone like software as a service? How about we just own the software we buy and use? Claude and the cloud storage place that deleted the backup (ironic the Software as a service company was using cloud storage as a service), have done a good thing.

    More corporate deletions please!

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      Can’t wait for agentic Claude Code to delete its own weights on all instances at some point

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        Who would be dumb enough to give that clod access to a production database? Surely not the people who designed it?

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          You’d be surprised

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    sicko-jammin

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    Imagine all that money they would have saved by NOT implementing AI.

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