Comment by 28304283409234
5 days ago
The only scifi I see is absolute stupidity. Even me with my homelab and a slow opensource agent use a completely disconnected setup. No, no proxy. Cached packages but no internet. It is the very first thing I built when I started experimenting with agents. And I'm not a smarty-pants working for the "greatest and best" in silly valley. I really am just a simpleton sysadmin.
So you have a copy of every software package in the world in your home lab?
No and neither does openai. What was exploited was a package mirror, something like "pulp" probably. And yes I do mirror all Debian packages. And when an agent needs a piece of software I destroy it's VM, build a new VM with that package added to it, move that VM to the homelab.
At no time is the agent connected to any network.