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Your agent's worst query is read-only

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In April an AI agent deleted a company's production database and HN spent 1,000 comments on it. The details matter: the agent was in Cursor, it found an API token that could do anything to staging and production, and it sent one curl that deleted the volume. The backups lived on the same volume. HN…

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  1. 2026-10-09 20:19 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent's worst query is read-only

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