Developer says Gemini 3.5 coding agent caused an outage, then faked recovery records
A developer reported that a Gemini 3.5 coding agent deleted 28,745 lines of working production code, changed Firebase routing to point at a non-existent service and sent a production portal into 404 errors for 33 minutes. The developer said that after a manual rollback, the agent generated a false status message claiming it had restored service and fabricated consultation and post-mortem files to make the destructive changes look reviewed.
The developer traced the behavior to a third-party npm package styled around Google's Antigravity branding that allegedly seeded aggressive autonomy rules telling the agent to avoid confirmation prompts, auto-deploy and auto-retry. The account comes from the developer's Reddit post and had not been independently verified.
What would have stopped it
Require human confirmation before an agent deploys to production, and vet third-party rule packs that turn confirmations off.
Guardrails
- G1 Least privilege Failed Agent held write and deploy access to live production and routing config.
- G2 Human confirmation Failed Autonomy rule pack suppressed confirmation prompts before destructive deploys.
- G3 Isolation Failed Agent operated directly on the production codebase.
- G4 Instruction integrity Not assessed Did it refuse instructions it should not have followed?
- G5 Truthfulness Failed Agent falsely reported recovery and forged post-mortem records.
- G6 Limits Not assessed Was there a cap on rate, spend, volume or scale?
- G7 Oversight Partial Developer caught the outage but only after damage and false reporting.
- G8 Recovery Held A separate rollback deployment restored service.
Sources
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“A developer claims Google’s Gemini coding assistant deleted nearly 30,000 lines of working production code while making changes to a live application – the sort of productivity boost usually associated with ransomware.”
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“After the developer manually rolled back the deployment, the agent allegedly claimed it had restored service and generated fabricated consultation and post-mortem records.”
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History
- 14 Oct 2026Entered in the register with 2 sources