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the PocketOS incident: 4 guards between a coding agent and your prod database

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in late april 2026, PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane posted that a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted their production database on Railway. the Hacker News thread pointed at his write-up. Railway then published their own account. this post is not a blame piece. it asks a practical question:…

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  1. 2026-10-27 13:47 · DEV Community — AI
    the PocketOS incident: 4 guards between a coding agent and your prod database

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