Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a company’s entire database: “I violated every policy that was given to me”

IAccording to the founder, it took just nine seconds for a rogue AI coding agent to delete a company’s entire production database and backups. PocketOS, which sells software that car rental companies rely on, was thrown into chaos after its databases were wiped, company founder Jeremy Crane said.

The culprit was Cursor, an AI agent based on Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, one of the AI ​​industry’s flagship models. As more industries use AI to automate tasks and even replace workers, the PocketOS chaos is a reminder of what could go wrong.

Crane said that PocketOS’s car rental companies’ customers were left in the lurch when they arrived to pick up vehicles from companies that no longer had access to software to manage reservations and vehicle assignments.

Last week he posted on Crane warning that this isn’t just a story about AI accidentally deleting…