Is LLM command sandboxing paranoia or necessity?
keepthepace · reddit · 2026-08-23
The author questions the necessity of sandboxing LLM-generated commands (e.g., via Docker), noting that some commercial IDEs seem to neglect this. While they've never caught a major threat—only unsolicited rewrites—experiments giving a local model root access showed the model was overly cautious. The discussion seeks to determine if current sandboxing is adequate or a disaster waiting to happen.
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