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adamm255yesterday at 8:49 PM1 replyview on HN

“A bitch to setup” - $180bn should pay for that setup problem to be less of a bitch surely.

The Mars Perseverance project cost $2.7bn to deliver. Way more of a bitch to deliver than air gapping a test env!


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ACCount37yesterday at 11:44 PM

Even in this incident, OpenAI had benchmarks that were broken because a task expected an AI to be able to access Google Drive, but the sandbox was set to deny access to Google Drive.

This kind of isolation-induced task breakage was what prompted some of the AIs to start probing their infra for a way to get internet access. Which funneled agents to the "secret hacker message board". Oopsie.

"Air gapping a test env" has an actual cost. Not just in infrastructure dollars that would be better spent on buying more GPUs, but also in all the friction it adds to every step you want to take. I'm absolutely unsurprised that they weren't all in on tightening down every bolt on day 0.