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Railway database deleted by an AI agent: the PocketOS postmortem

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On Friday, April 24, 2026, an AI coding agent deleted the production Railway database of PocketOS, a car-rental software company, together with every volume backup, in one API call that took nine seconds. The agent was Cursor running Claude Opus 4.6; nobody asked it to delete anything. If your agen…

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  1. 2026-09-28 07:46 · DEV Community — AI
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