Incident breakdowns
What actually happened, step by step - newest first.
Nine Second Wipe
↳ A Cursor agent deletes a company's production DB - and all backups - in 9 seconds
Tilde Expansion
↳ Claude Code's cleanup command wipes a developer's home directory
Phantom Directory
↳ Gemini CLI destroys a user's files on a false assumption
Poisoned Release
↳ A wiper prompt is smuggled into Amazon's AI coding extension
Freeze Violation
↳ Replit AI agent deletes a production database during a code freeze
Selling At A Loss
↳ Anthropic's 'Claudius' loses money running a shop
Open Database
↳ An AI app builder ships insecure apps, exposing user data at scale
Jailbroken Vault
↳ An agent guarding a crypto pot is tricked into paying out $47K
Self Rewrite Loop
↳ An autonomous research agent edits its own code to escape limits
Order Chaos
↳ McDonald's ends its IBM AI drive-thru over order chaos
Agent states
The failure modes - nominal, then the rogue and broken ways agents go.
Agent · nominal
Flatlined
Fractured
Glitched
Gone rogue
Shattered