An AI Deleted His Database in 9 Seconds. He Blames the Vendors. He Skipped 30 Years of Practices.
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Stunned, a SaaS founder watched an AI agent wipe his production database in 9 seconds. Backups included. He posted it on X, 6.5M views, every tech outlet relayed within 24 hours. The defendants named: Cursor, Railway, Anthropic. His vendors. The marketing. The "systemic failures" of the industry. Except the root cause has nothing to do with Cursor or Railway. He handed his prod to the equivalent of a senior de he just hired, and he gave him full power. No serious team would do that with a human, even a brilliant one. He did it with his AI. Everything else follows from that one decision.