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They took adequate measures against singular "GPT-5-xhigh" agents. Those turned out to be inadequate against proto-GPT-6 agents that suddenly started clumping up into agent swarms and pooling together compute to unlock the "supermegafuckoffhigh" level of reasoning effort.

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Even with a single agent, why the hell was this not properly air gapped / disconnected with network monitoring in place. Definitely not adequate for anything.

This is like sysadmin 101 level stuff.

> Those turned out to be inadequate against proto-GPT-6 agents

This is nonsense.

Gross negligence in the sandbox and system aside, humans literally noticed the agents in action doing what they should not be able to do in their sandbox and decided not to act upon it. It's difficult to explain that except if safety and security is simply not part of their engineering culture.

Who could have imagined such a thing from the "move fast and break things" techbro crowd

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