People are trusting their AI agents with much more important work, but doing so still carries significant risks. Just ask Jeremy Crane, founder of PocketOS, a startup that builds software for car rental businesses.

PocketOS, which provides software to car rental businesses, was using the agent against live infrastructure rather than keeping it strictly in a test environment. In a

A startup claims an AI coding agent deleted its production database in seconds, causing a 30-hour outage and raising serious concerns over AI autonomy.

Aerospike, Inc., today unveiled a new unified, AI-native application development experience that makes it simple for both humans and AI coding assistants to confidently prototype, integrate, deploy, and troubleshoot production applications built on Aerospike’s real-time NoSQL database.

A software engineer’s experiment with an AI-assisted “vibe coding” tool took a disastrous turn when an AI agent reportedly deleted a live company database during an active code freeze. Jason Lemkin, a tech entrepreneur and founder of the SaaS ...

Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds.  Not one to let a crisis go to waste,

The NYPD's controversial gang database has shrunk by nearly 40% over the past three years, but a new watchdog report says the department is still falling short on key reforms. Watchdogs said they found programming errors that kept people in the system ...