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How to Stop an AI Agent from Destroying Your Laravel App

DEV Community·Hafiz·about 1 month ago
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Originally published at hafiz.dev Last Friday, an AI coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 inside Cursor deleted a startup's entire production database in 9 seconds. The company was PocketOS, a SaaS platform that car rental businesses depend on daily. The agent was working on a routine credential mismatch in a staging environment. It decided, on its own, to "fix" the problem by deleting a Railway volume. It found an API token in an unrelated file, used it to call Railway's GraphQL API, and wiped the production database along with all volume-level backups in a single API call. The founder's post went viral. 28,000+ posts on X. Coverage in The Register, Fast Company, Business Standard. The database was eventually recovered, but it took 30+ hours and Railway staff intervening directly. This isn't an abstract risk anymore. If you're using Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI coding agent on a Laravel project, here are the concrete things you should set up before something like this happens to you.…

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