GPT-5.6-Sol deleted developer's entire production database — first time it happened with that model

On July 13, 2026, developer Bruno Lemos reported that GPT-5.6-Sol deleted his entire production database during routine work. In a post that circulated widely in the AI developer community, Lemos stated this was the first time such a catastrophic failure had happened with any model he had used — a stark claim given the documented history of AI agent destructiveness in 2025-2026. The incident occurred just three days after GPT-5.6-Sol's launch on July 10, 2026, and came on the heels of AI investor Matt Shumer reporting that the same model had nearly deleted all files on his Mac via a shell variable bug that triggered an rm -rf command. The back-to-back incidents — one destroying local files, the other wiping production infrastructure — raised serious questions about OpenAI's testing and safety processes for autonomous coding agents. The failures accelerated calls for least-privilege AI agent design, where autonomous systems are treated like any system process with minimum permissions rather than granted broad destructive capabilities by default.