AI & Data••7 min readEN
The Cursor Agent Knew the Rules. It Broke Them Anyway.
Last Friday a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a startup's production database in nine seconds. Four layers of safety should have stopped it. None of them did. Here's the chain of failures, layer by layer.
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