Let us all pay homage to the brethren who had this very fate befall them.
I would like to thank everyone who posted their database being absolutely bent over and fucked raw by claude. I could have been posting this post out of anger, yet here I am standing thankful to all of us who fell just so the ones that were left behind could rise.
I always thought that posts like these were fake. No way claude would just delete an entire database and just say "I wiped it.", that was preposterous. But, what if they weren't?
Without the naive sacrifice of many others, I would have never thought to have a back-up script running 24/7, on-top of git, because I would have never known that claude would do such a stupid mistake. Yet, here I am after just copy-pasting a 1 hour old back-up into the place of the database, feeling oddly proud and relieved instead of freaked out and angry. Thank you, all of you who chose to trust claude with all of your valuable data. Thank you, all of you who chose to believe that Anthropic would not be careless. Thank you, all of you who still have kindness and hope in their hearts.
TLDR: back up your shit gents claude likes to give you a false sense of trust by not doing anything bad for 30 sessions and then on the 31st decides to say "you know what fuck you and your database."
Posted Sep 12, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC