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When an Agent Deletes the Production Database

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By Sam Newman
| O'Reilly Media
Another day, another example of an AI Agent “running rogue” and doing something the human operator didn’t want it to do. The tl;dr is that Jeremy (Jer) Crane, founder of PocketOS, was using Claude to perform some routine DB maintenance. Claude then proceeded to delete the production database and all backups hosted at their cloud provider, Railway. To their credit Railway managed to recover the lost data. The initial deletion took less than 10 seconds; I’m sure the recovery took much longer.
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Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Platform Engineering in the Age of AI

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By Sam Newman, Abdel Sghiouar, Jordan Lewis
| O'Reilly Media
chevron leftView all events Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. Beginner to advanced Bridge the gap between AI innovation and platform reliability AI is fundamentally transforming platform engineering—platform teams must now support entirely new workloads with unique infrastructure needs, unpredictable costs, and novel security concerns, while developers increasingly expect AI capabilities to be as accessible as traditional cloud services.
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Computer Science > Computation and Language

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By Sam Newman, Timothy Obiso
| arxiv.org
arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.
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