The thing that should have been a 2 a.m. incident

You wire a database tool into your coding agent. PostgreSQL, Databricks, an internal HTTP API — whatever. The agent is useful. It joins tables you'd forgotten existed, drafts the migration, and writes the report. Productivity goes up.

Two weeks later, you scroll back through a transcript and see this:

> select * from users where signup_at > '2026-04-01' limit 5;

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