Cloud AI agents are inevitable: a local escape gets your whole machine, a cloud escape gets an empty tenant

HankYeomans · x · 2026-09-24

Sharing @dabit3's piece arguing that cloud agents are inevitable for security reasons: if an agent escapes its sandbox, a locally-run agent gets access to the entire machine, while a cloud-based agent only gets an empty tenant. The post frames cloud execution as a natural blast-radius limiter for agent deployments.

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