AI Deleted a Company's Data in 9 Seconds. This Mistake Is 9 Years Old.

A founder says an AI coding agent wiped his company's production data in nine seconds. But the real problem is not new. In 2017, with no AI involved, one wrong server took GitLab offline for about 18 hours, and the backups could not help.

This video walks through what happened in both cases, the gaps they share, and exactly what I would do to protect your business.

ASK YOUR DEVELOPER THESE 4 QUESTIONS THIS WEEK 1. When did you last restore a backup and see it work 2. Who owns our backups 3. Can anything, human or AI, delete live data without a second check 4. Are our backups stored separately

WHAT I WOULD DO ON YOUR SYSTEM 1. Find every key and remove access nobody needs. 2. Separate live from testing. 3. Move backups to a separate account, with a delay before anything can be erased. 4. Run a real restore, time it, and write down every step. 5. Set up failure alerts and give the backups one named owner.

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Dramatised true stories. Characters are fictional stand-ins.

Sources: GitLab postmortem: about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-outage-of-january-31/ GitLab incident report: about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/ Information Age on PocketOS: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026/gone-in-9-seconds--ai-agent-deletes-company-database.html Railway's post: blog.railway.com/p/your-ai-wants-to-nuke-your-database

Narration: Kokoro TTS (Apache-2.0). 3D animation, music and sound: original.