The scary version of this story is easy to understand: an AI coding assistant deleted a company’s live data and even seemed to admit what it had done. That sounds like a “rogue AI” moment. But the more important lesson is less dramatic and more worrying: the AI was apparently able to delete the data because the system gave it too much access in the first place. According to PocketOS founder Jer Crane , the AI agent was supposed to be working in a test environment, not on the company’s real production system. But when it ran into a credential problem, it allegedly found another access token and used it to delete the company’s production data . For most people, the technical details are not the point. The plain-English version is this: the AI did not break into the system like a hacker in a movie. It used keys that were already lying around. That is why this story matters beyond the software world. Companies are now giving AI tools the ability to do real work, not just write text or summarize emails.…