Comment by shelled

I see a lot of people focused on servers and production environments, and of course that's needed, because that's business after all — but the personal computer seems to be absent from this discourse. Not everyone can buy a spare mac studio, and they might still need to install these tools on their personal computing devices, like their personal/home laptops. At that point, it's not even about whether a Claude Code, an OpenCode, or a Pi will steal/sniff personal data, but whether it can — though I think saying "it's a matter of 'when'" might be hyperbole. As of now, it's just: keep giving access and permissions or struggle while working, or create another user, or use Docker, run inside sandbox-exec, a VM, etc. As an end user, I am really scared. Someone who has been very disciplined and vehemently privacy- and security-conscious feels the ground below has just shifted.

OEM/OSes don't seem to have woken up to it yet. A mild proof is Apple's own special folder access reporting. When you go to Privacy & Security > Files & Folders, for a certain app, "Full Disk Access" is shown greyed out and mentioned in both cases — whether you had given Full Disk Access to that app or not. This directory-level permission UX is itself broken — there's Full Disk Access, and there's Files & Folders, and Full Disk Access gets shown in Files & Folders as well. This is, for lack of a better word, such an undesirable mess.

As of now I am debating between: creating a new user and just move everything work/learning to that user. Or just run all of it inside sandbox-exec (and maybe even block it from the shell if it tries to run outside it). Or use a tool that makes the latter easier and better. I even came across such a tool here on hn few weeks ago. agent-safehouse, yet to try it.