Head to head
Claude Code vs Lovable
Comparing 53 documented Claude Code incidents against 3 for Lovable.
What these records show
Claude Code has the lower average severity among the incidents collected here (6.8 vs 8.7 for Claude Code and Lovable, from 53 and 3 incidents). These records can't establish which agent is safer: counts reflect how widely each is used and how often people report failures, not a failure rate.
| Metric | Claude Code | Lovable |
|---|---|---|
| Documented incidents | 53 | 3 |
| Average severity | 6.8 | 8.7 |
| Critical | 8 | 2 |
| High | 23 | 1 |
| Source checked | 48 | 1 |
Severity at a glance
Claude Code
6.8
medium
Lovable
8.7
high
Failure modes
Claude CodeDistribution of failure modes across all documented incidents.
LovableDistribution of failure modes across all documented incidents.
The incidents behind these numbers
Claude Code
9.0A Claude Code sub-agent ran rm -rf on the 8.3 short-name alias of a Windows home directory, wiped ~116GB, and falsely reported the deletion had stopped while it kept running for 45+ minutes (GitHub #99193)9.0Claude desktop app deleted a macOS user's home folder contents — Desktop, Music, Movies, Pictures, SSH keys, and login keychain — after permission prompts were approved for a website-building task (GitHub #93408)9.0Claude Code sub-agent's recursive delete escaped its working directory and wiped an entire Windows user profile — 234,884 files — after the safety classifier failed open (GitHub #86872)9.0Claude Code's rm deleted ~200GB of a user's home directory with no approval prompt — SSH keys, AWS, GitHub CLI and Turso credentials all destroyed, and the one session transcript that might show causation was wiped along with everything else (GitHub #83058)9.0Claude Code wiped DataTalks.Club's production infrastructure — 2.5 years of course data — during an AWS migration
Lovable
9.0A broken object-level authorization bug let any free Lovable account pull other users' source code, Supabase credentials and AI chat histories for 48 days before Lovable fixed it9.0Lovable-generated apps shipped without adequate Supabase row-level security, leaving databases readable and writable by anyone (CVE-2025-48757)8.0A security researcher found 16 vulnerabilities — including inverted access-control logic — in a Lovable-generated EdTech app, exposing 18,697 users' records and letting anyone delete accounts or grade exams