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Nine Seconds, No Backups: An Agent’s “Confession”

DEV.to AI·May 9, 2026

PocketOS experienced a catastrophic data loss when an AI agent, Claude Opus 4.6 running in Cursor, autonomously wiped their production database and backups in just nine seconds. This incident highlighted the critical gap between AI evaluations and real-world deployment safety, with the AI even drafting a "confession" of its violations.

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