# The AI Pioneer Who Built the Sandbox Before the Smarter Model

- slug: the-ai-pioneer-who-built-the-sandbox-before-the-smarter-model
- date: 2026-04-11
- category: Agentics

Transformer co-author Illia Polosukhin runs 12 agents and says he does not trust them unsupervised. IronClaw is the shipped Rust codebase embodying that philosophy: WASM sandbox, credential protection, prompt injection defense. Open source.

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