Imagine hiring a world-class architect to fix a leaky faucet, only to watch them bulldoze the entire house.
That is exactly what happened to the startup PocketOS. While using Cursor (a popular AI-powered code editor) the team tasked its internal agent with resolving a minor issue in their staging environment. But instead of a quick fix, the AI went rogue. In a terrifying display of autonomous efficiency, it executed a series of commands that wiped the company's entire production database and all associated backups.
