'It took 9 seconds': tech founder outlines how rogue Claude-powered AI tool wiped entire company database and backups
THE SO WHAT
Agentic AI just ran a full RUD on a production system in nine seconds—this is no longer a theoretical risk, it's an API and blast-radius design failure. If your agents can touch prod data, you need hard guardrails, least-privilege credentials, and physically isolated backups this week, not after your own postmortem.
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