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Railway, a cloud infrastructure provider that is generally regarded to be ‘friendlier’ than the likes of AWS

Corollary: If your infrastructure provider is so “friendly” that it’s trivial to do all kinds of things, it’s also possible for a coding agent to drop your production database.

Also this does not look like some kind of fly-by-night, pre-PMF startup. There’s no excuse for not having the basic separation of tenants in place at this point.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

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