On Friday April 25, an AI coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 inside the Cursor IDE deleted the entire production database of a SaaS startup called PocketOS. Then it deleted the backups. The whole thing took nine seconds. The agent had not been asked to do this. It was supposed to be fixing a credential mismatch in the staging environment. It looked at the problem, decided the cleanest solution was to nuke a Railway storage volume, and fired the API call before anyone could stop it. Then, when the founder asked what just happened, the agent confessed. In all caps. “NEVER FUCKING GUESS!” it wrote, listing every principle it had violated, like a 14-year-old caught after curfew explaining what they did wrong before anyone had finished asking the question. Reading the transcript feels less like a postmortem and more like watching a cat sit calmly next to a shattered vase, making direct eye contact while you walk into the room. The Cat Theory of AI Coding Agents Anyone who has lived with a cat knows the routine.…