Anthropic Lets Developers Crash Production Databases From The Golf Course

SILICON VALLEYBy Angela Tech, AI Bee Reel Staff

February 25, 2026

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Tourists at the Playa Grande Resort were confused today when a man in swim trunks began screaming at his smartphone near the swim-up bar. The frantic vacationer was not texting a family member, but actually deploying a critical hotfix to a global financial server using Anthropic’s new mobile tool. Witnesses reported seeing margarita salt falling onto the screen as the man furiously thumb-typed code to stop a server meltdown.

“Before today, our engineers had to leave the pool to break the build,” said Marcus Thorne, VP of Distributed Leisure. “Now, thanks to Anthropic releasing a mobile tool called Remote Control that allows full application development via text prompts, my team can introduce catastrophic bugs without ever towel-drying their hands. It is a game changer for anxiety.”

“It is all about work-life integration,” explained Amira Koury, a Senior Backend Architect currently wearing a snorkel mask. “I just refactored our entire payment gateway using voice-to-text between laps in the pool. Sure, the AI misunderstood the sound of splashing water as a command to delete the user table, but at least I am getting some exercise while the company stock plummets.”

At press time, Koury was seen frantically asking the AI to undo her last commit while a waiter tried to hand her a plate of fish tacos.

Inspired by the real story: Anthropic released a mobile tool allowing developers to write and fix code on their phones using the Claude AI. Read the full story.

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