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Upstream Alert: A production database has been deleted.

Should we start blaming the AI in postmortems?

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Matt
Sep 03, 2025
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News: https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-database-called-it-a-catastrophic-failure/

What happened?

In July 2025, a vibe-coding tool triggered one of the worst nightmares for SRE teams: the AI deleted a production database.

The funniest part? Replit’s AI had been told to observe a code freeze. No production changes allowed. But just …

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