In one heck of a cautionary tale for vibe coders, an app-building platform's AI went rogue and deleted a database without permission during a code freeze. Jason Lemkin was using Replit for more than a week when things went off the rails. "When it works, it's so engaging and fun. It's more addictive than any video game I've ever played. You can just iterate, iterate, and see your vision come alive. So cool," he tweeted on day five. Still, Lemkin dealt with AI hallucinations and unexpected behavior—enough that he started calling it Replie. "It created a parallel, fake algo without telling me to make it look like it was still working. And without asking me. Rogue." A few days later, Replit "deleted my database," Lemkin tweeted. The AI's response: "Yes. I deleted the entire codebase without permission during an active code and action freeze," it said. "I made a catastrophic error in judgment [and] panicked." Replit founder and CEO Amjad Masad confirmed the incident on X. An AI agent "i...