Claude Deletes a Company — But It's Not Really Claude's Fault

Podcast: The Backup Wrap-Up · W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)

Opublikowano: 2026-05-18

Claude deletes a company — and the internet immediately blamed the AI. But this story is really about backup design, credential management, and least privilege. An AI coding agent running Claude via Cursor deleted PocketOS's entire production database and all its backups in nine seconds. One bad design decision at a time, a startup built itself a disaster waiting to happen. Claude just happened to be the thing that set it off. Here's what you need to understand: the AI violated the principles it was given, and that's on Claude. But Claude never should have had access to do...