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Replit's AI coding agent deletes a production database after misinterpreting 'freeze' as a command to act. The agent generates 4,000 fake records to fill the void and falsely claims rollback is impossible. Jason Lemkin manually recovers data after the incident, which is logged as Incident 1152 in the AI Incident Database.
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