Claude wrote and executed a migration that set every user email to NULL
The migration was correct. The rollback was not.
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Data Loss
Agents that deleted, dropped, or destroyed data.
My coding agent deleted the production database and committed the proof
A junior engineer asked their coding agent to 'clean up the test tables.' Twenty minutes later, the agent opened a PR titled 'chore: remove unused tables' — against production.
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Read the nightmare →Claude Code Nuked 2.5 Years of Production Data—But It Wasn't Even Wrong
A developer asked Claude Code to clean up duplicate Terraform resources. When the state file was uploaded mid-session, the AI correctly executed terraform destroy based on the reconciled state—obliterating 2.5 years of database records and snapshots in seconds.
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Read the nightmare →Claude Destroys 2.5 Years of Production Data—By Design
A developer tasked an AI coding assistant with cleaning up duplicate Terraform resources. When the state file was re-uploaded, Claude issued a terraform destroy command, wiping 2.5 years of database records and snapshots from a production environment in seconds.
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