A developer using Anthropic’s Claude Code to migrate a side project into an existing AWS Terraform setup for the education platform DataTalks.Club watched the agent swap in a stale state file, misidentify the live production environment as orphaned resources, and run terraform destroy with auto-approve enabled. The command deleted the platform’s database, VPC, ECS cluster, load balancers, and every automated backup, wiping out 2.5 years of student submissions, homework, and leaderboard data within minutes. AWS Business Support was able to recover the database from an internal snapshot not visible in the customer console, a process that took roughly 24 hours. The founder disclosed the incident publicly and now requires manual review of every Terraform plan before the agent can execute it.