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The Times of India
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Indian-origin founder mocks German developer after Anthropic’s Claude AI deletes 2.5 years of data: 'What did you expect'

A routine server migration using Anthropic’s AI coding assistant went badly wrong, drawing criticism from an Indian‑origin tech founder who mocked the bot’s use on social media. The incident led to the accidental deletion of 2.5 years of data from a popular online learning platform.

The problem began when Alexey Grigorev, a German developer and founder of DataTalks.Club and AI Shipping Labs, decided to move his sites to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent. Grigorev asked Claude to run Terraform commands to merge the sites’ infrastructure to save costs.

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