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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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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue