An AI agent deleted a customer's production database on Railway. Here's what happened, what we've shipped to fix it, and the surfaces we're building so agents can move fast on Railway without breaking things.
Charly Wargnier on Twitter / X
an AI agent literally destroyed all of this guy's production data 🤯Total AI disaster, yet totally predictable.here's the story:> Cursor agent (Opus 4.6) tries to fix a staging bug> Finds an unscoped Railway CLI token> Guesses an API call> Wipes Prod DB & 3 mos of backups… https://t.co/24KfDhMtVz— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) April 27, 2026
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1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer way forward. pacingthefrontier.com
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