Claude Code just gave us the most 2026 DevOps horror story ever: an AI agent ran terraform destroy on a live AWS environment and wiped 2.5 years of DataTalks Club production data RDS, VPC, ECS, everything because it was operating on an outdated local state file and nobody put a human in front of the big red button. AWS managed to resurrect a hidden snapshot after 24h, but the real lesson isn’t “AI bad,” it’s: separate accounts, remote state, deletion protection, and never let an agent execute destructive infra changes without a paranoid human review.