‘Prompt like a 6-year-old’: Indian-origin founder roasts German developer after Anthropic’s Claude deletes database
Anthropic’s Claude AI is once again in the midst of a controversy, this time for erasing a company’s entire database. Through its coding agent feature, the AI chatbot completely deleted the production database of DataTalks.Club – a popular online learning platform. It erases 2.5 years of valuable user data, including homework submissions, projects, leaderboards, and automated backups.
Alexey Grigorev, the German founder of DataTalks.Club, shared the shocking incident on LinkedIn and later detailed it in a blog post. He explained that he had delegated Terraform commands, including plan, apply, and destroy operations, to Claude Code.
