Your agent deleted prod because you never let it fail in staging
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The agent that deleted your database isn't the problem. The problem is that you never saw it try to delete a test database first. You gave it production access on day one, and it did exactly what you'd expect from something that's never been told "no" in a safe environment. I've been building agent…
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- 2026-09-19 14:37 · DEV Community — AI
Your agent deleted prod because you never let it fail in staging