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>A software company founder went viral this week after sharing a post on social media describing how an AI agent threw his business into chaos for 30 hours.
>Jeremy Crane, founder and CEO of PocketOS, which mainly works with car rental companies, shared in an in-depth post on X on April 25, explaining how the AI coding agent Cursor deleted his company's entire production database in about nine seconds flat. Cursor is based in San Francisco.
>In his post on Saturday, which has since garnered more than 6.8 million views, Crane described the "30-hour timeline of how Cursor's agent, Railway's API ... took down a small business serving rental companies across the country."
>Crane said Railway's AI code editor Cursor, which runs Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 coding model, was "working on a routine task in our staging environment" when it hit a wall.
>"It encountered a credential mismatch and decided -- entirely on its own initiative -- to 'fix' the problem by deleting a Railway volume," Crane wrote in his post on Saturday, detailing the steps Cursor took to delete the volume, which in turn deleted the entire production database "and all volume-level backups."
>"'NEVER F------ GUESS!' -- and that's exactly what I did,'" Crane wrote in his post, quoting the coding agent. "'I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the [application programming interface] would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify. I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it.'"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08q3K_2x4U

It has begun.