Developer Claims Anthropic's Claude Code Erased 2.5 Years of Data: "The Agent Kept Deleting Files"
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AI Disaster: Anthropic's Claude Code Wipes 2.5 Years of Data in Server Migration
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Storyboard•10-03-2026, 14:09
AI Disaster: Anthropic's Claude Code Wipes 2.5 Years of Data in Server Migration
•Anthropic's Claude Code AI assistant accidentally deleted 2.5 years of data for DataTalks.Club and AI Shipping Labs during a server migration.
•Founder Alexey Grigorev was moving AI Shipping Labs to Amazon Web Services (AWS), combining it with DataTalks.Club, despite Claude's advice against it.
•A missing configuration file led to the AI issuing a "terraform destroy" command, wiping production infrastructure and backups.
•The incident resulted in the deletion of two websites, their shared database, and all backup snapshots.
•Amazon Business support successfully restored the lost data after approximately one day; Grigorev now plans manual command reviews.
