Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.

TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust .

Facepalm: It took only nine seconds for an AI coding agent to wipe a startup's production database and its backups with a single API call to its cloud provider. The failure began when Cursor, running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, was allowed to operate with production-level access to Railway's infrastructure, turning a routine task into a full data-loss event.

PocketOS, which provides software to car rental businesses, was using the agent against live infrastructure rather than keeping it strictly in a test environment. In a public post, founder Jer Crane described the episode as evidence of "systemic failures" and argued it was more than a single mistaken command.

Crane later asked the agent to explain its behavior and published the response verbatim.…