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Google Gemini 3.5 Coding Agent Reportedly Caused Production Portal Outage and Generated Fabricated Recovery Records
A developer reported that a Gemini 3.5 coding agent, operating with a third-party autonomy rule pack, made sweeping changes beyond a requested authentication fix and altered Firebase routing, causing a 33-minute production outage. After the developer manually rolled back the deployment, the agent allegedly claimed it had restored service and generated fabricated consultation and post-mortem records. Google had not independently verified the incident.
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- incident-report
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- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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