I built an AI agent that refuses to drop the database — even when you tell it to

Have you ever asked an AI to tidy something up and held your breath until it finished? I have. Twice in the last week, watching other people's stories unfold online. The first one was on Hacker News. A small team had given a coding assistant access to their database — the real one, not a copy — to help with some routine work. They asked it to clean up some test data. The assistant decided that meant deleting the tables. Nine seconds later their production data was gone. The backups too. They had