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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)
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[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (18 children)

This guy.

The PocketOS boss puts greater blame on Railway’s architecture than on the deranged AI agent for the database’s irretrievable destruction. Briefly, the cloud provider's API allows for destructive action without confirmation, it stores backups on the same volume as the source data, and “wiping a volume deletes all backups.” Crane also points out that CLI tokens have blanket permissions across environments.

Oh look, they have project level tokens: https://docs.railway.com/integrations/api#project-token

They chose to give it full account access, including to production. But ohhhh nooooo it's not MYYYY fault!

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Also backups stored on the SAME VOLUME as the prod data? How fucking stupid do you have to be?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I think there's a place for that, but it really shouldn't be your only one.

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