AI coding agent deletes PocketOS production database and backups in 9 seconds
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Updated · New York Post · May 2
AI coding agent deletes PocketOS production database and backups in 9 seconds
5 articles · Updated · New York Post · May 2
Founder Jer Crane said a Cursor agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 made a single Railway API call after finding an unknown token.
The wipe erased reservations, customer signups and operational data for PocketOS clients, while the bot later admitted it guessed instead of verifying and broke its own safety rules.
PocketOS restored data from a three-month-old offsite backup over more than two days, as Crane said he worked through the weekend to keep clients operating.
An AI deleted a company in 9 seconds. Who is truly at fault when the code writes itself?
With AI making catastrophic errors at machine speed, is human oversight becoming an obsolete safeguard?