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Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

Apr 30, 2026
Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

<p>PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business</p><p>It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental businesses rely on, descended into chaos after its databases were wiped, the company’s founder Jeremy Crane said.</p><p>The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, which is one of the AI industry’s flagship models. As more industries...