4 min readWhat began as a routine staging task for a SaaS startup ended in a disaster that would have been unthinkable just months ago: an AI agent operating as a super insider threat and triggering a worst-case production failure. In a detailed X post, Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS, a software platform for the rental car…
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