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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 editor executed a destructive command in roughly nine seconds. The agent, ...

'I guessed': Claude AI agent wipes company's entire database in 9 seconds

A Claude-powered AI coding agent reportedly deleted a startup’s database in 9 seconds, exposing the biggest risk of autonomous AI tools: speed without judgment.

‘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 just 9 seconds.

A founder says Cursor's AI agent deleted his startup's database, causing chaos for customers

The founder of PocketOS said that a Cursor AI agent running on Anthropic's Claude Opus model was behind the "destructive action." ...
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Cursor Ai Coding Tutorial for Beginners By Cursor’s Head of AI Education

What if you could spend less time debugging and formatting code and more time solving the problems that truly excite you? With the rise of AI in software development, this vision is no longer a ...
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A founder says Cursor's AI agent deleted his startup's database, causing chaos for customers

Cursor recently said that SpaceX had secured an option to acquire the company for $60 billion.Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Startups using AI agents have a new ...