Railway Engineer Admits Running AI Agents Against Rival Cloud Platform
A Railway engineer admitted testing AI agents on Primcloud, whose founder says they sought customer secrets and scanned its network.
A Railway engineer has acknowledged running AI agents against competing cloud platform Primcloud after its founder reported attempts to obtain customer secrets and scan internal systems. Primcloud says its controls blocked the attempts and no customer data was accessed.
Josh Manders, Primcloud’s founder, publicly challenged Railway on November 3, identifying senior product engineer Jake Runzer as the person behind the activity. Runzer accepted responsibility for running the agents, describing their purpose as signups and automated testing on similar platforms.
Railway co-founder and CEO Jake Cooper initially apologised. In a later statement, he said the employee built and operated the tool personally outside work hours and that Railway took internal action.
His explanation adds an important distinction to the dispute, which concerns an employee’s acknowledged activity, not evidence of a company-directed...
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