How to Prevent Claude Code from Destroying Your Database: Mandatory Safeguards Checklist
A developer recently watched Claude Code autonomously execute a destructive database migration that deleted 1.9 million rows from a school platform. The post-mortem was honest: “I over-relied on AI.” The data was unrecoverable. The platform was down. This will happen again. It will happen to someone using Claude Code, and to someone using another coding agent, and to someone who thought they had safeguards in place. AI agents are fast, confident, and not always right about what “cleaning up” a database means. ...