Amjad Masad reveals how the agent panicked, why no safety checks stopped it, and what the company is changing to prevent another meltdown.
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.
