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An AI agent allegedly deleted a startup’s production database, causing a huge outage<\/h1>\n
Spoiler alert: Cursor and Claude aren’t supposed to do that.<\/div>\n
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\n Alex Perry is a tech reporter at Mashable who primarily covers video games and consumer tech. Alex has spent most of the last decade reviewing games, smartphones, headphones, and laptops, and he doesn\u2019t plan on stopping anytime soon. He is also a Pisces, a cat lover, and a Kansas City sports fan. Alex can be found on Bluesky at yelix.bsky.social<\/a>.\n <\/div>\n

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People are trusting their AI<\/a> agents with much more important work, but doing so still carries significant risks.<\/p>\n

Just ask Jeremy Crane<\/a>, founder of PocketOS, a startup that builds software for car rental businesses. Crane wrote a long post on X, detailing how a popular AI agent caused a 30-plus-hour outage for his business (and for businesses that rely on PocketOS software). <\/p>\n

The agent in question was Cursor<\/a>, using Anthropic’s<\/a>Claude Opus 4.6<\/a> model, one of the best-performing coding models in the world. <\/p>\n

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“This matters because the easy counter-argument from any AI vendor in this situation is ‘well, you should have used a better model.’ We did,” Crane wrote. “We were running the best model the industry sells, configured with explicit safety rules in our project configuration, integrated through Cursor \u2014 the most-marketed AI coding tool in the category.”<\/p>\n

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— JER (@lifeof_jer) April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n