AI has developed this entire culture of people who are "into tech" but seem to not understand how a computer works in a meaningful way. At the very least you'd think they'd ask a chatbot if what they're doing is a bad idea!
I have a separate removable SSD I can boot from to work with Claude in a dedicated environment. It is nice being able to offload environment set up and what not to the agent. That environment has wifi credentials for an isolated LAN. I am much more permissive of Claude on that system. I even automatically allow it WebSearch, but not WebFetch (much larger injection surface). It still cannot do anything requiring sudo.
They are not. Many people are doing this; I don't think there's enough data to say "most," but there's at least anecdotal discussions of people buying Mac minis for the purpose. I know someone who's running it on a spare Mac mini (but it has Internet access and some credentials, so...).
AI has developed this entire culture of people who are "into tech" but seem to not understand how a computer works in a meaningful way. At the very least you'd think they'd ask a chatbot if what they're doing is a bad idea!
> AI has developed this entire culture of people who are "into tech" but seem to not understand how a computer works in a meaningful way.
Isn't that the whole point of AI?
"can you please run inside a vm?"
I think most people are buying separate computers to run it on. This is a nice example of why you might want to do that.
(Though they're still hooking it up to their entire digital life, which also doesn't seem very reassuring.)
> I think most people are buying separate computers to run it on.
You must be joking.
I have a separate removable SSD I can boot from to work with Claude in a dedicated environment. It is nice being able to offload environment set up and what not to the agent. That environment has wifi credentials for an isolated LAN. I am much more permissive of Claude on that system. I even automatically allow it WebSearch, but not WebFetch (much larger injection surface). It still cannot do anything requiring sudo.
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They are not. Many people are doing this; I don't think there's enough data to say "most," but there's at least anecdotal discussions of people buying Mac minis for the purpose. I know someone who's running it on a spare Mac mini (but it has Internet access and some credentials, so...).
Most tech enthusiasts I know have a myriad of computers laying around.
Spinning up a physical instance to try out some totally shady software is pretty standard stuff going back decades now.
Reminds me a lot of "Chris the Cockney".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc6J-YlncIU