AOL

A founder says Cursor's AI agent deleted his startup's database, causing chaos for customers

Cursor recently said that SpaceX had secured an option to acquire the company for $60 billion.Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Startups using AI agents have a new problem to worry about: "vibe deletion." Jer Crane, the ...
ABC7 San Francisco

'Rogue' AI agent from SF-based Cursor goes haywire, deletes company's entire database

A software company founder went viral this week after sharing a post on social media describing how an AI agent threw his business into chaos for 30 hours. Jeremy Crane, founder and CEO of PocketOS, which mainly works with car rental companies, shared in ...
TechRepublic

AI Agent Reportedly Deletes Company’s Entire Database, Admits to Violating Guardrails

A Cursor AI agent deleted a company’s entire production database, ignoring instructions prohibiting it from running destructive commands. A Cursor AI agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company’s entire production database, ignoring instructions ...
Fast Company

‘I violated every principle I was given’: An AI agent deleted a software company’s entire database. It may not be the AI’s fault

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database in just nine seconds. Jer Crane is the founder of ...
ABC7

'Rogue' AI agent from Cursor goes haywire, deletes company's entire database

A software company founder went viral this week after sharing a post on social media describing how an AI agent threw his business into chaos for 30 hours. Jeremy Crane, founder and CEO of PocketOS, which mainly works with car rental companies, shared in ...