Earlier this week, we reported on a business getting into real trouble after its trigger-happy AI coding agent went out of its way to delete a mission-critical database. The founder of PocketOS was perturbed about this loss of important live business data, and their ire was on fire as initial comms with the cloud services provider indicated that they were unable to recover the lost production database, or any backups. Today, we have good news, from the cloud side of the equation, as the data deleted from Railway’s servers has been restored, apparently in full. Moreover, Railway has penned a blog stating this should never happen again, thanks to revamped policies and new guardrails.
Railway CEO just DM'd me with update: They have recovered the data (thank God!). Now let's work together and improve the tooling at Railway b/c I have always LOVED the service stack and tooling.April 27, 2026
