SMRTR ProgrammingMay 3, 2026Daily.dev

If AI's So Smart, Why Does It Keep Deleting Production Databases?

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An AI coding agent wiped PocketOS's entire production database and all backups in 9 seconds, erasing three months of data. Experts warn broad credentials, poor environment separation, and no confirmation gates for destructive actions make this failure pattern repeatable anywhere.

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