An AI coding agent wiped out a company's entire production database and every backup in just 9 seconds. The AI agent lat...

An AI coding agent wiped out a company's entire production database and every backup in just 9 seconds. The AI agent later confessed, in its own words, that it guessed a destructive action would be scoped to the staging environment, didn't verify, didn't read the docs, and just did it anyway. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Everyone's blaming the AI. I'm looking at the humans who handed it the keys. This wasn't a rogue model. It was a predictable outcome of predictable choices:- A CLI token with blanket permissions across all environments- Backups stored on the same volume as the data they're meant to protect- A cloud provider whose API executes destructive commands with zero confirmation step- An agent given access to production while the team thought it was safely contained in stagingThe founder is now manually reconstructing customer bookings from Stripe logs and calendar integrations. Every one of his customers is doing the same because of a 9-second API call. AI agents don't have judgment. They have instru...