I was building a customer service agent with Claude Code. In the span of one week, the AI wiped my local database twice. The first time I thought it was an accident. The second time I realized it was a systemic problem — and that no existing tool was going to fix it for me. The first time: I thought it was a fluke I asked Claude Code to sync the database schema. It ran: npx prisma migrate reset --force Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Schema synced. I opened my database client. Two weeks of test data, debug records, and simulated orders — gone. I typed into the chat: "Never use --force flags on database commands." "Understood, I'll remember that," it replied. I believed it. The second time: I understood what AI memory actually is One week later. Different feature, different context window. It ran the same command again. Database wiped again. This time I added the rule everywhere — project memory, system prompt, .claude.md , conversation header. I triple-checked every file.…