It took roughly nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe out a startup’s entire production database and every backup copy attached to it. The tool responsible was Cursor, a developer environment ...

Startup Cursor today debuted a new version of its popular artificial intelligence coding platform. The release includes features that will make it easier for developers to automate programming tasks ...

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running ...

AI coding agents have advanced rapidly, enabling startups to generate wireframes, prototypes and even fully functioning applications with much less time and effort than ever before. Even founders with ...