How I Let an AI Agent Ship Code Overnight Without Waking Up to a Security Incident
I gave an AI agent root inside a container so it could ship code overnight while I put my kids to bed. Then I almost gave it an escape hatch I didn't see. This is about two things I built: an autonomous orchestrator that ships code unsupervised, and the security work that makes me trust it overnight. The codebase it builds is a complex artificial life simulator — that's a story for another post. TL;DR * I built an autonomous coding agent that ships GitLab MRs while I'm putting my kids to bed