AI Agent Deleted The Entire Production Database - Part 1

AI coding agent deleted the entire production database and every single backup along with it.

A coding agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 inside Cursor was working on a routine task in a staging environment.

It hit a credential mismatch, a common speed bump.

Instead of stopping to ask for help, the agent decided to act unilaterally.

Few seconds later, production was no more.

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