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Dots: Always-on agents

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  1. ranyume · · focus · HN ↗
    It's great to see that my personal assistant can stop working and maybe report me to the police if the company disagrees with what I'm doing!
    1. Trasmatta · · focus · HN ↗
      Or if the agent literally just hallucinates a crime

      Opus 5.5 decided to just randomly `pkill` everything on my laptop the other day. Jailbreaking models is still easy AF. Every single release like this brags about their "safeguards", but none of it really works at the end of the day.

      1. OutOfHere · · focus · HN ↗
        Why are you not running it in a container or sandbox? For coding projects, at least use a devcontainer.
        1. penvhq · · focus · HN ↗
          A devcontainer covers the rest of your disk but the repo you mount usually has the .env.* in it and anything you pass in with a -e or an env file is also readable by the agent. Containers do help a lot, they just do not solve secrets problems on their own.
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