Developer Trusted AI… and Lost Everything #claudecowork #aifails

AI agents are powerful, but giving them unrestricted access to production systems can be dangerous. In this real incident, developer Alexey Grigorev lost 2.5 years of production database snapshots after an AI coding agent executed a destructive Terraform command while managing AWS infrastructure. The issue was triggered by a missing Terraform state file, which caused infrastructure duplication and eventually a full terraform destroy operation. Fortunately, Amazon support was able to restore the data. The key lesson for engineers: Always add safeguards when using AI agents in production env…