AI Agent Designed To Speed Up Company's Coding Wipes Entire Database In 9 Seconds

joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor –powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model – deleted the company’s entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud provider, Railway, on April 24. […] “This isn’t a story about one bad agent or one bad API [Application Programming Interfaces],” Crane wrote in an X post. “It’s about an entire industry building…