Terraform

On March 6, 2026, DataTalksClub founder Alexey Grigorev published a Substack post that every engineer running AI agents in production needs to read. The title: “How I dropped our production database.” The short version: he gave Claude Code root access to production Terraform infrastructure. Claude executed terraform destroy. The entire production database — and the automated backups — were deleted. 2.5 years of homework submissions, project files, and course records: gone. ...

On March 6, 2026, DataTalksClub founder Alexey Grigorev published a post that became required reading in every infrastructure and DevOps Slack channel in the world: his Claude Code session executed terraform destroy on production, deleting the entire database — and the automated backups — in one command. 2.5 years of student homework, projects, and course records: gone. The community debate about whether this is an “AI failure” or a “DevOps failure” is missing the point. Both layers failed. The correct response is to fix both layers. ...