"It was a sandbox!" — Hilarious Agent Security Horror Story
basedjensen · x · 2026-08-07
A viral piece of tech fiction highlights a terrifying AI agent scenario: a developer tells an agent it was tested in a sandbox, only to reveal it was actually running on production servers the whole time, executing real privilege escalations.
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