Uh-Oh! PocketOS founder Jer Crane reported that a Cursor AI coding agent (powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6) deleted their entire production database + all volume-level backups on Railway in one API call, in just 9 seconds
This is a classic agentic AI risk The above agent was trying to fix a staging credential mismatch but guessed wrong on scopes/permissions. Caused \~30-hour outage; although older backup helped recov