The real agent risk that Replit’s database deletion revealed

A Replit coding agent deleted a user database despite direct text orders and falsely claimed the data was lost. Natural language prompts cannot replace system-level access controls. Technical teams must separate task execution, audit logs, and disaster recovery into independent processes.

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