PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.
  • kevinsky@feddit.nl
    15·
    15 hours ago

    The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API wiping all backups after the main database was zapped.

    In what scenario should wiping backups over an API even be a thing?

    • Enoril@jlai.lu
      4·
      13 hours ago

      For example if you delete an aws database, the associated snapshots are also deleted automatically. It’s written in the document and you have to tune some parameters to avoid that.

      So I assume the AI deleted the database and they tried to restore it… discovering the database associated snapshots weren’t there anymore. oops…

      • kevinsky@feddit.nl
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Snapshots are not a real backup untill you commit them to some sort of immutable storage.