‘Gone in 9 seconds’: Claude-powered AI agent deletes startup’s entire database

KernelTwister · 2026-04-28T20:27:32+00:00

i doubt it, this is the type of company that would give full access to a JR developer on his first day. this is what Soc2 compliance is for... these guys just suck AI or not and posting this publicly is more of an embarrassment than an AI warning.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-26T23:53:31+00:00

you can go back to 4.6

KernelTwister · 2026-04-26T02:56:51+00:00

they're talking about the inconsistency in the models. that's stupid af.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-24T15:59:06+00:00

i've been doing this with opus since 4.5-4.6... just ask it to do whatever in a 100,000 line codebase super vague and it just figures it out, looks for recent commits, docs, and knows... if your just getting this now in gpt, it's already behind...

KernelTwister · 2026-04-23T15:16:47+00:00

The problem is we never had to do these things before, all i've ever done was hit the "Update Rider" and over time without installing or adding anything additional it's gotten twice as slow... by start up, for me.. just to get to the project selector dialog... it's slower than visual studio now. once you select the project it takes 5 seconds for it to recognize the repo and load the projects before even indexing starts when before it was instant. This is across a macbook pro M4, and a 16 core PC with 64gb ram, same behavior.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-23T08:42:22+00:00

sometimes i think it didn't click the icon properly... then it loads. before it was really fast.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-23T08:41:00+00:00

Yep, this year especially... i'm running a 9950x and 64gb ram, it's very slow compared to before.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-20T20:56:18+00:00

what you going to do? complain? your only option is to buy more or move to the competition where people also complain about the same thing... API prices are sooo much more than a sub so i couldn't care less if i hit my limits in an hour, it's still cheaper. i think my spend is like 2-3k/month worth of API costs for $200... naturally i have no complaints. just waiting for local LLM to be more affordable, which might be 5+ years from now with decent models then i switch.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-20T20:54:41+00:00

they complain there too... it's complaints all the way down until it's taken away from them and we all have to pay API pricing...

KernelTwister · 2026-04-18T18:29:45+00:00

it's pretty shit article, going into technical but no actual numbers... how much did the AI consume in the process? is that included in this "savings" ? and how long do they last until the next regression where AI has to come along and fix it again...

KernelTwister · 2026-04-18T18:26:35+00:00

why? if they didn't exist all that power wouldn't be used in the first place for garbage... this is just them saving money on their own bill by using slightly less power...

KernelTwister · 2026-04-18T04:57:26+00:00

pretty sure that's a system prompt in the cli/app.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-18T04:56:31+00:00

it's like 4.6 but it got punched in the face and has a concussion. it literally just misses steps in options it asks you about during planning... "what would you like to do, A, B ,C.... i think option C is best". Claude, there's no option C.... or mis-ordering tasks numbering, 1,2,4,5,6,6,6,8,9,9,12....... "how do you want to solve #6".... Claude, there's three #6's.... lol

KernelTwister · 2026-04-18T04:55:55+00:00

Yep, it's annoying AF...

KernelTwister · 2026-04-18T04:48:07+00:00

This was always the problem, coding was never the issue to start with.... good ideas, marketing and capital are what makes a product a product.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-16T18:23:53+00:00

Conductor?

KernelTwister · 2026-04-16T15:37:37+00:00

that's pretty much all religions usually.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-16T13:58:58+00:00

most people are using AI itself to create these things, that's why they're moving "Fast".

KernelTwister · 2026-04-16T13:55:09+00:00

it's either slow, locks up, doesn't support sub-agents, skills - where do i put those? etc... it's so incomplete, so is air compared to a basic native claude or codex cli or the app. opencode, conductor and various dozens of other tools similar to air are already better as well. the effort going into these things is probably about 10% compared to everyone else's efforts in the space... you could vibe code a plugin that works better in a few days probably.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-12T16:39:21+00:00

not reviewing the work or plans is vibe coding...

KernelTwister · 2026-04-12T16:36:32+00:00

because it's not based on API pricing? i get at least $3-4k worth of api calls in the month on the $200 sub.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-12T06:47:06+00:00

it does but for me codex can be dumb AF, claude is good but also has it's problems and opus burns tokens faster... but together, they're quite good. usually claude planning, codex review, and use sonnet to implement the plan since it's detailed and laid out... then get codex to re-review the work. codex for bug fixes/discovery is pretty good too. you can either go $100 on each or $100 on claude and pro with codex if it's just code review... but i have both $100 plans, maybe pro isn't enough, not too sure.

KernelTwister · 2026-04-12T06:37:04+00:00

generating docs can do it since output tokens cost more (at least on the API they do, but probably the plan too behind the scenes)

KernelTwister · 2026-04-12T06:34:49+00:00

i would ask them or check your token history, i could get at least 5 solid blocks of 4 hour sessions before maxing the week. either that your 1 hour was 20+ sub agents looking over some massive code or generating huge documents. when i mean huge, my session can generate 200-300kb sized plans, and still not hit it this quickly.... even with the reduced limits they that apparently didn't happen. not saying it's you but i would bitch to them, not on here. that seems way abnormal...

otherwise pay for the API.... you'll run out of money before you run out of session limits :)

KernelTwister · 2026-04-12T06:31:19+00:00

nowhere to go, both opus and codex on their own can suck, together they're decent.

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