The AI found 7 spots where my app deleted user data for good

He asked the AI to list every place his side project hard-deletes user data. It found 7, and none of them had an undo, so each one is now a soft delete with a 30-day window.

How it works

Asks the AI to list every place the project hard-deletes user data
It finds 7 places, and none has an undo
Each one is changed to a soft delete with a 30-day window

Why it’s worth knowing

None of the 7 places that deleted user data for good had an undo. The agent found every one of them in a single pass.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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