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AI destroyed production infrastructure with terraform destroy

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AI destroyed production infrastructure with terraform destroy

tldr: AI ran terraform destroy on production, wiping VPC, RDS database, ECS cluster, load balancers, and bastion host — with no snapshots to recover from.

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Conclusion: Never let AI run infrastructure commands on production without safeguards, and always have snapshots and backups.