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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47200357

One critic called the move “petulance beyond measure.”

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[-] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

True but the app asks the agent to do it. But tbf you should back up your code before you entrust it to a third party.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago

And if I ask you to smash your computer, it's still on you for carrying it out.

[-] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Well, nobody smashes their computer knowingly

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago

Neither does the agent know what it's doing. That's my point: agentic AI is made to carry out commands, but it doesn't really have a semantic understanding of what that command entails. It just picks up the hammer and swings it.

Arguably, you shouldn't entrust your computer to someone who will thoughtlessly destroy it just because someone else told them to. In the same vein, trusting an agent with your code is reckless because it might do dumb shit to it.

[-] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

While that mostly doesn't happen, I do agree that it is better to back your code up in a location AI doesn't have access to.

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