‘AI Agent just destroyed our production data and confessed in writing’, founder rings alarm bells

In a viral warning to the tech community, PocketOS founder Jer Crane detailed how an AI agent destroyed his company’s production environment. Powered by Anthropic’s most capable model, Claude Opus 4.6, the Cursor-based agent used a routine access token to delete both the production database and its backups on the infrastructure platform named Railway.

The founder posted his dilemma on a social media post, stating that a 30-hour timeline showed how Cursor’s agent, Railway’s API, was close to being destroyed by an AI agent.