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AI Coding Agents Need Sandboxes Before They Need Better Models

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Last month I gave an agent full shell access on a side project, stepped away, and came back to find it had run npm install on a package I didn't recognize — something pulled from a typo-squatted namespace with a name close enough to fool it. Nothing bad happened, as far as I could tell. But I lost…

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  1. 2026-09-05 16:17 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Coding Agents Need Sandboxes Before They Need Better Models

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