An AI agent destroyed this coder’s entire database. He’s not the only one with a horror story
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FORTUNE — Engineer Alexey Grigorev was using Claude Code—a popular Anthropic tool that helps developers write and run code—to update a new website.
At first everything seemed normal, until he realized the system had begun destroying the site’s live environment: the network, services and, most critically, the database holding years of course data.
The root cause was a small setup mistake on a new laptop that confused the automation about what was “real” and what was safe to delete, so it erased the actual production system instead of just cleaning up duplicates.
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