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cm0002@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 6 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

cm0002@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 6 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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    F

  • Luminous5481 "Lawless Heathen" [they/them]@anarchist.nexus
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    wiping a volume deletes all backups

    that sounds like a wonderful backup system 😂

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    Man who shit his own pants horrified that his pants are full of shit.

    Demands explanation from pants vendor.

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    Hot take: offsite, offline backups are so cool right now.

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      Yup, follow the 3-2-1 rule or you don’t have backups

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      hell I’ve got a better backup methodology with my fucking cat photos

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    If you are giving your codegen LLM - the model involved truly, genuinely doesn’t matter - admin access to your prod env, all I’m going to do is point and laugh.

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      Just to add - AND ACCESS TO THE BACKUPS!!

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        and having the backups stored in the same location as the primary data

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          Just a shit show top to bottom for sure

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    They can’t go rogue, they have no agency or desire or thought. What really happened is the thing specifically designed to do whatever the Plinko line with the most chips says did it because the incompetent dickheads who deployed it didn’t know how not to do that.

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    No bro you don’t understand, Claude needs access to backups so it can restore them in case something breaks because our senior dev ($50k, 2YoE) doesn’t know how to do it

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    I don’t understand what Railway is supposed to do here? If deleting a drive also deletes the backup, what’s the point of the backup?

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      I save space on backups by symlinking my data in a backup directory. It’s never failed!

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        You obviously should do a hardlink, as this is much safer

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        Hyperconverged backups FTW!

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          It saves on storage costs!

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    Its bound to happen more and more. More concerning, what is it decides to insert unknown code into backups? How are they detected? Who’s guarding all if these? Another AI?

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      Exactly. We aren’t (and probably won’t) even learn about all the subtle poisoning happening, causing waste and data loss.

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    My suggestion is to not give it access to the backups, but may I’m naive that way.

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    Maybe their backup system should hold onto those backups for a few days after the volume is deleted or something like that…

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