I’m continuing my 10 million-plus testing and working towards expanding to ten nodes. No, I shall not be publishing the IP addresses. A global test does not require the entire internet to appoint itself an unpaid research assistant.
This is my own testing environment, not mainnet. I’m running on a non-standard port, and multicast is configured. These are experimental arrangements, not invitations to invent a conspiracy because a port number has offended somebody’s expectations.
The practical difficulty is that I am one person. Router management, updates, maintenance, PFV3, logging, checks, network administration: none of it becomes optional merely because I would prefer to concentrate on the experiment.
So I have a variety of AI agents handling different responsibilities. Without that assistance, conducting a global test on this scale would not have been possible for me in the past. The work requires a team.
I have therefore acquired one. Unfortunately, it is rather like employing a collection of excessively trained uneducated three-year-olds.
Imagine giving a toddler Cisco CCIE-level knowledge of routers, no dependable understanding of why this particular network needs to behave as it does, and permission to touch things.
Now imagine several toddlers.
They possess the technical vocabulary of a senior engineer and the touching conviction that anything which can be changed ought to be improved immediately. They can explain how to move the staircase. Whether you happen to be standing on it belongs to another department.
This is not an argument against using them. Quite the opposite. Their assistance makes the work possible. They can save enormous amounts of time—provided one does not allow their enthusiasm to create an entirely new category of work.
The distinction is between knowing how to execute a command and understanding why that command belongs in this experiment, under these conditions, at this moment. A beautifully executed alteration can still ruin what you were trying to measure.
That is where I come in: deciding the purpose, setting the boundaries, checking the results, and ensuring that “helpful” has not quietly become “unauthorised.”
This is the world we are now in. One person can undertake work that once demanded a substantial team, assisted by machines of extraordinary utility and occasionally breathtaking innocence.
The nursery has acquired administrative privileges.
It has not acquired adulthood.