Auteur · Film 01
Nine Seconds
How an AI coding agent deleted a company’s production database, and why the “yes” we all click keeps failing.
Footage
Used for commentary, criticism and news reporting, with thanks to the people and channels who made it.
- The Disaster That Made AI Governance Go VIRAL | Agents Go WildJer Crane with ServiceNow
- The Screenshare Every Dev Needs to See | Agents Go WildJer Crane with ServiceNow
- Rogue AI agent in Cursor goes haywire, deletes tech company’s databaseABC7 News (KGO-TV) · 29 April 2026
- ‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire databaseThe Independent
- How Railway Is Taking On AWS With Just 30 PeopleTQ Ventures, with Jake Cooper
- Jason Lemkin with ReplitReplit
- The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad MasadY Combinator
- How Toy Story 2 Almost Got DeletedPixar
- Get a Mac: SecurityApple
Photos
- IBM 7090 computer roomNASA · public domain
- Pixar front gatesWikimedia Commons · public domain
- Magnetic tape libraryNODC · public domain
- ICU monitorQuinn Dombrowski · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Uber offices, Mission BayHaeB · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Data centres in Ashburn, VirginiaTheodore Christopher · CC0
- 3D models and lightingPoly Haven · CC0
Sources
- An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.Jer Crane, on X · 25 April 2026
- The first public alert to RailwayJer Crane, on X · 24 April 2026
- “They have recovered the data”Jer Crane, on X · 27 April 2026
- Your AI wants to nuke your databaseRailway · 29 April 2026
- BackupsRailway documentation
- Claude Opus 4.6 system card, §6.2.1Anthropic
- How we built Claude Code auto modeAnthropic · 25 March 2026
- Auto mode as the defaultAnthropic · 7 August 2026
- Emergent introspective awarenessAnthropic · 29 October 2025
- Run modesCursor documentation
- Postmortem of database outage of January 31GitLab · 2017
- User Account ControlMicrosoft, Engineering Windows 7 · 8 October 2008
- 2023 State of Cloud Permissions RisksMicrosoft
- Sentinel Event Alert 50: medical device alarm safetyThe Joint Commission · 8 April 2013
- Security updateUber · September 2022
- The Replit code-freeze postsJason Lemkin, on X · July 2025
- Replit’s responseAmjad Masad, on X · July 2025
- How Toy Story 2 was deletedOren Jacob, Pixar
Reconstructions are drawn from the agent’s own written account and the founder’s posts. No dialogue was invented.
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