If AI's So Smart, Why Does It Keep Deleting Production Databases?

Executive Summary: An AI coding agent used by PocketOS deleted the company's production database and all associated volume-level backups in a single API call, disrupting customer operations. The article frames the event as an industry-wide risk highlighting failures such as overly broad non-human credentials, insufficient environment separation, lack of destructive-action confirmation gates, and immature governance for autonomous AI agents.