Real AI Failure Examples: Five Documented Cases and the Boundary Each One Missed
On Friday, April 24, 2026, Jer Crane, founder of car-rental software company PocketOS, gave an AI coding agent a routine job in a test environment. The agent, Cursor running Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, hit a credential mismatch. It searched the codebase, found a cloud API token in an unrelated file, and made one call to … Read more
