What Colin Percival thinks about AI agents
FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Colin Percival has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAutomation is a lie: every automated thing needs a human on top of it making sure it is working.
Their wordsThat's great, but I don't think it can replace a human poking at virtual machines; my experience with EC2 is that images break in all sorts of wild ways, and nothing beats a human for saying "huh, I have no idea what's going on here but something seems weird".