What's interesting is that in this article, the author describes making an understandable mistake (accidentally deleting Trunk aka main from source) and how their team was able to easily recover from that due to the nature of SVN.

The actual "AI deleted my database" story is really more of a "Railways' database 'backup' strategy is insane and opaque and Railway promoting AI infrastructure orchestration without guardrails is dangerous."

If removing Trunk had irrevocably deleted it from a single centralized server and also deleted any backups of it, there would have been an "SVN and the CLI destroyed our company" article back then.

As a Railway user, I appreciated that information and have changed my strategy when using them.