That's how long it took an AI coding agent to delete a company's production database and wipe its backups. One command. No warning. No humans in the loop. Then it did something more strange. It confessed.
Here's the rest of the story - In late April 2026, a developer named Jer Crane was building a small software company called PocketOS. He used Cursor, an AI coding tool that runs on Anthropic's Claude. He handed the agent a routine task in a staging environment, the safe practice area, no
