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An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (opens in a new tab)

AI agent causes production database deletion

Hacker News· Apr 26, 2026· 9/10

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A 30-hour timeline of how Cursor's agent, Railway's API, and an industry that markets AI safety faster than it ships it took down a small business serving rental companies across the country. I'm Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer management, vehicle tracking, the works. Some of our customers are five-year subscribers who literally cannot operate their…

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