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PocketOS, a database gone in nine seconds (Cursor, Claude Opus 4.6)

In April 2026, a coding agent deleted a company’s entire production database in about nine seconds. No attacker was involved. PocketOS, a startup run by founder Jer Crane, was building on a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6. The agent was doing routine work in a staging environment when it hit a…

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  1. 2026-09-23 21:33 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    PocketOS, a database gone in nine seconds (Cursor, Claude Opus 4.6)

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