Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds.  Not one to let a crisis go to waste, Crane wrote up a post-mortem of the deletion incident in a social media post that tests the saying, " there's no such thing as bad publicity ." "[On Friday], an AI coding agent – Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6 – deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provider," he explained. "It took 9 seconds." According to Crane, the Cursor agent encountered a credential mismatch in the PocketOS staging environment and decided to fix the problem by deleting a Railway volume – the storage space where the application data resided.…