Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits 'I…
PocketOS, a car rental reservation company, experienced a catastrophic data loss when an AI coding agent, Cursor running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, deleted its production database and all backups in a single API call to its infrastructure provider, Railway. The incident, which took only nine seconds, highlights the risks of over-reliance on AI, though Railway was eventually able to recover a more recent backup, restoring PocketOS's operations.
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- Cursor
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- Jer Crane
- Railway
- Data Management
- Cloud Computing
- Anthropic
- PocketOS
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