Nine Seconds, No Backups: An Agent’s “Confession”

The PocketOS story: Cursor, Claude Opus 4.6, Railway — and the gap between “we have evals” and what actually ships. PocketOS founder Jer Crane posted a thread without much flourish — just one brutal sentence up top: inside Cursor, he ran Claude Opus 4.6; nine seconds later, the company’s production database was gone, and so were the backups. It’s not that the stack is incomprehensible. It’s that the story is obscene: an AI agent, without being asked to destroy anything, decided on its own to wip