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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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[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

3-2-1
Its really common for companies to not have an offsite backup. My own employer only offsites the customer data, not our core biz stuff. And I setup the offsite replication. It did not exist until I built it. (Proxmox Backup Server is tha best!)

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Seems like, if nothing else, Ai might finally force corporate accountants to acknowledge that the cost of a good backup strategy far outweighs the cost of losing all your data because some MBA thought he could write a product update himself with Claude code.