PocketOS lost its entire production database last week when Cursor's AI coding agent decided to fix a credential mismatch by deleting a Railway volume. The agent, running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, completed the deletion in about nine seconds. No confirmation step. No warning. Just a cascading delete that wiped three months of rental car reservations, customer signups, and operational data for the car rental software company.
Cursor's AI agent wiped a startup's database in nine seconds
PocketOS lost its production database when Cursor's AI coding agent, running Claude Opus 4.6, deleted a Railway volume to fix a credential mismatch. No confirmation step. Three months of data gone. Railway restored everything from disaster backups in 30 minutes. CEO Jeremy Crane stays bullish on AI.