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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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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Then what even is the point of all this? At my old job the idiot intern was sorting patch cables in a box

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    The point of what? The push for AI in industry?

    You'd have to ask someone else. I can only make conjectures, but I'd say it has something to do with companies feeling the need to justify to their shareholders that their investments in AI were worth it, so they double down on the sunk cost fallacy. Or maybe those shareholders also own stock in big-name AI companies. It's hard to say exactly...

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