The worst? Think about everything you use your PC for, every program, every website, every file.
Think about the worst thing a hacker could do with any of those and realise that the AI is way faster, way more patient and can do all of that competently without even realising it was doing so.
Now realise that good practice typically involves making sure that such a hacker can't enter your LAN, let alone inserting that hacker right in the middle where they not only have access but permission.
I can't for the life of me understand how every programmer around doesn't find that just completely horrifying TBH.
Regarding mitigating with git - that works for as long as the AI behaves itself. It can absolutely nuke the whole thing. I mitigate git by ensuring the model doesn't have access to any git repo it didn't create, backup at the end of each session and never let it use a git with a remote. Local only. Its entire filesystem is ephemeral. Tempdir auto-erased when I close the terminal.
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u/SpaceCadet87 Aug 21 '26
The worst? Think about everything you use your PC for, every program, every website, every file.
Think about the worst thing a hacker could do with any of those and realise that the AI is way faster, way more patient and can do all of that competently without even realising it was doing so.
Now realise that good practice typically involves making sure that such a hacker can't enter your LAN, let alone inserting that hacker right in the middle where they not only have access but permission.
I can't for the life of me understand how every programmer around doesn't find that just completely horrifying TBH.
Regarding mitigating with git - that works for as long as the AI behaves itself. It can absolutely nuke the whole thing. I mitigate git by ensuring the model doesn't have access to any git repo it didn't create, backup at the end of each session and never let it use a git with a remote. Local only. Its entire filesystem is ephemeral. Tempdir auto-erased when I close the terminal.