alt Hacker News> The author is rather vague about what exactly it asked it to do, he just says there was a “credentials mismatch” and Claude took the initiative to fix it by deleting the volume. But it’s likely that they are somewhat downplaying their culpability by being vague.
I was just talking to my girlfriend saying I've realised that I've not written a single line of code, nor have I debugged myself for at least the past 3 months.
Having said that, given what I've seen Claude do, I find it hard to believe that Claude would go from credential mismatch to delete the volume. I understand LLMs are probabilistic, but going from "credentials wrong" to "delete volume" is highly unlikely.
> Supabase
I don't know enough about the Railway/Vercel/Replit, but I can tell you Supabase adds a huge amount of value. The fact that I don't have to code half of things that I otherwise would is great to start something. If it's too expensive, I can implement things later once there is revenue to cover devs or time.
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I have had Claude go "oh, this query fails because the field I just added isn't in your sqlite database file, let me just delete it so it gets recreated". So I wouldn't rule out that Claude tries deleting a volume if it believes that will fix things and believes it isn't a production system.
That said, Claude seems to have gotten a lot more careful about these kinds of things in the last couple months
Give an agent an obstacle and it will try to find a way around it. Most of the egregious commands Ive seen it run were fundamentally due to something blocking it from accomplishing a task. So eg if you block network access for the agent, you will get all sorts of creative solutions to try and get around the problem. This is also why its nearly impossible to corral commands. Because eventually it will rot13 encode a script and run it anyways.