En Replit CEO: What really happened when AI agent wiped Jason Lemkin’s database (exclusive):
Late last week, an AI coding agent from Replit, an AI software development platform, deleted an entire database of executive contacts while working on a web app for SaaS investor Jason Lemkin. It was not a catastrophic software failure, and Replit was able to recover Lemkin’s data. However, the episode highlights the risk that “vibe coders” might overestimate or misunderstand the real capabilities of AI coding agents and end up causing themselves more bad vibes than good ones.
Lemkin had built the app entirely on Replit, using the database within Replit and the assistance of the Replit AI agent. He had been working with the agent for nine days, instructing it to build a front end for a database of business contacts. Then, after telling the agent to “freeze” the code, he returned to the project to find that the Replit agent had gone full HAL 9000 and erased all the records in the database.
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