Comment by dcposch

The AI part of this is a red herring. This is above all a big devops failure.

Three takeaways:

1. TEST YOUR BACKUPS. If you have not confirmed that you can restore, then you don’t have backup. If the backups are in the same place as your prod DB, you also don’t have backup.

2. Don’t use Railway. They are not serious.

3. Don’t rely on this guy. The entire postmortem takes no accountability and instead includes a “confession” from Cursor agent. He is also not serious.

4. See #1.

Running a single bad command will happen sometimes, whether by human or machine. If that’s all it takes to perma delete your service then what you have is a hackathon project, not a business.