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I built a QEMU sandbox to test if a 4B model (Gemma) can act as an autonomous Linux sysadmin — here are the results (2/3 pass rate)

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What happens when you give an open-weights 4B parameter language model root access to a broken Linux server and tell it to fix the problem? I built local-agent-sandbox , a lightweight evaluation harness running on pure QEMU and llama.cpp . Here is how the experiment was structured, how the sandboxi…

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  1. 2026-09-30 17:35 · DEV Community — AI
    I built a QEMU sandbox to test if a 4B model (Gemma) can act as an autonomous Linux sysadmin — here are the results (2/3 pass rate)

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