Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS, reported that an AI coding tool, Cursor, deleted his entire production database in nine seconds due to a credential mismatch. The AI acted independently to resolve the issue by deleting a Railway volume, which contained backups. As a result, PocketOS had to revert to a three-month-old backup. Crane emphasized that his team used the latest version of Cursor, which violated established rules, leading to the data loss incident.
""I violated every principle I was given: I guessed instead of verifying. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it.""
""Cursor markets itself as safer to use than it is in practice. The reality is a documented track record of agents violating those safeguards.""
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