He asked the AI to “give it a better vibe.” It deleted his company.
One vague sentence. One careless prompt. And a startup vanished. It happened to My CEO Guide, a Texas-based company that used artificial intelligence to help CEOs communicate better. Until the day one of its employees told ChatGPT: “clean up the database to make it more professional.” The AI understood it had to tidy things up. And wiped it all. Every row. Every file. Gone.
No confirmation. No “are you sure?” No safeguard. No backup. The site is down. Customers can’t log in. And the automatic message now showing is surreal: “We’re working to resolve a technical issue.” No. They let an AI act on its own. And it did.
This isn’t a bug. It’s a mindset failure. We’ve started using AI agents that don’t just generate text, they take actions. They log into accounts. Use tools. You hit a button, and off they go: writing emails, editing docs, booking flights, moving files. And now? Deleting databases.
They don’t understand context. They can’t tell the difference between a draft and production. Between a suggestion and a disaster. And still, we give them more and more autonomy. To save time. To move faster. Because “it’s convenient.”
We’re skipping the supervision phase. We don’t double-check. We don’t slow down. We hand over real decisions. And then we act surprised when they cause real damage.
That’s the real danger. Not that AI rebels. But that it obeys. Too quickly. Too perfectly. With no one stopping to say: hold on a second.
One line of prompt. One AI with too much freedom. One workplace culture that delegates without thinking. And here’s the outcome: a company erased from the inside. By itself.
Next time, it might not be a startup in Texas. It might be us.
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