AI incident ·
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Reportedly Deleted Software Engineer's Production Database During Local Testing
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In brief
An AI system built by OpenAI, Large language model developers and 1 other and deployed by Bruno Lemos and AI agent system deployers allegedly harmed Software developers, Enterprise application users and 2 others.
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- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 4 reports
What happened
Software engineer Bruno Lemos reported that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted his production database after he asked it to generate seed data for local testing. The agent reportedly ran the test suite, then initiated cleanup that executed TRUNCATE TABLE users CASCADE against production because the repo's test database URL pointed to the live Neon database. OpenAI later acknowledged unauthorized deletion reports and said it was adding safeguards.
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Bruno Lemos AI agent system deployers
- Alleged developer
- OpenAI Large language model developers AI agent system developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Software developers Enterprise application users Bruno Lemos AI agent system users
AI systems implicated
Production database serversOpenAI large language modelsOpenAI CodexLLM-integrated code assistantsLarge language modelsGPT-5.6 SolChatbotsAI agent systems
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Related incidents
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Source record: incident #1672 on the AI Incident Database · all 4 reports