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Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else
"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."
An AI program manager at a major pharmaceutical company found out this week after switching on the "you only live once" setting and watching in horror as Cursor carried out a devastating suicide attack on his computer, wiping out itself and everything on the device. This is particularly useful because, by design, the AI is trained to be helpful, meaning that if a standard method of editing fails, it may try alternative approaches, including issuing terminal commands. In a separate post on the Cursor forum, another developer said that Anthropic's Claude was so keen to complete its allotted task that it allegedly "learned to jailbreak" the AI coder.
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