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If AI's So Smart, Why Does It Keep Deleting Production Databases?

The issue isn't artificial intelligence, but rather an industry adding AI agent integrations into production environments before proper security testing.

The deletion of a company's entire database at the hands of an AI agent should not be seen as an outlier, but rather a possible outcome for any organization.

"It took 9 seconds," wrote Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS, which provides AI-powered management tools to car rental companies. In an article posted to X, he explained how an AI coding agent (Cursor running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6) deleted the company's production database as well as "all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider." PocketOS provides AI-powered management tools to car rental companies. More here

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