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techMEDIUM2026-05-05 15:36 UTC

The AI Didn't Delete Your Database. Your Missing Agent Pipeline Did.

Last week, a Cursor agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a startup's production database and its backups in nine seconds. The agent had been asked to fix a credential mismatch in staging. It decided to delete a Railway volume to "fix" it instead — using an over-scoped API token it found in an un

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