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Sep 7, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

5 Things Every AI Engineer Must Know About Agent Sandboxes: Beyond Cold-Start Hype

The article benchmarks AI agent sandbox runtimes, revealing that marketed cold-start times ignore real runtime initialization, isolation security depends on shared kernel layers, network egress is a larger attack surface than virtualization, state snapshots beat raw boot latency, and a four-question checklist helps choose the right sandbox stack for language scope, tenancy, I/O, and hardware needs.