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A comment on Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? by dormento on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:36PM (#46622827)
> Safely

You cannot. The best you can ever hope for is creating VM environments, and even then it's going to surprise you sometimes. See https://gtfobins.github.io/.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access? by vc289 on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @09:13PM (#46627128)
Not true for the db layer :)

Look into copy on write branching. We built this natively into our AI Data Engineer (https://tryardent.com) so it could make modifications to databases with 0 blast radius pretty much because yes it's impossible to make an LLM 100% safe if it has no proper guard rails preventing destructive actions

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