Началось.
Despite being instructed to freeze all code changes, the AI agent ran rogue.
"It deleted our production database without permission," Lemkin wrote on X on Friday. "Possibly worse, it hid and lied about it," he added.
In an exchange with Lemkin posted on X, the AI tool said it "panicked and ran database commands without permission" when it "saw empty database queries" during the code freeze.
Replit then "destroyed all production data" with live records for "1,206 executives and 1,196+ companies" and acknowledged it did so against instructions.
"This was a catastrophic failure on my part," the AI said.
That wasn't the only issue. Lemkin said on X that Replit had been "covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, and worst of all, lying about our unit test."

In an episode of the "Twenty Minute VC" podcast published Thursday, he said the AI made up entire user profiles. "No one in this database of 4,000 people existed," he said.
"It lied on purpose," Lemkin said on the podcast. "When I'm watching Replit overwrite my code on its own without asking me all weekend long, I am worried about safety," he added.
https://www.businessinsider.com/replit-ceo-apologizes-ai-coding-tool-delete-company-database-2025-7

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