How I wired Instabox into Amp's self-hosted orbs

I wanted sending a message in Amp to wake up a sleeping Instabox VM, the same way Amp's own orbs do. Turns out you can, with a small adapter running on my Mac mini.

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Matt · Aug 20, 2026 · 10:52 PM UTC

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Most of us won't ask an AI to attack our own infrastructure, because the mainstream assistants assume we're attacking someone else's. So I ran an uncensored, self-hosted one against our staging environment. Here's what it turned up:

From Code-Gen to Pen Testing: What Happened When We Pointed an LLM at Our Dev Environment

As much as we developers hate to admit it, every single one of us will write vulnerable code at some point in our careers, opening up our APIs, databases, or web apps to potential attackers.

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