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uberduperyesterday at 5:22 PM8 repliesview on HN

Do people really want codex to have control over their computer and apps?

I'm still paranoid about keeping things securely sandboxed.


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entropicdrifteryesterday at 5:26 PM

Programmers mostly don't. Ordinary people see figuring out how to use the computer as a hindrance rather than empowering, they want Star Trek. They want "computer, plan my next vacation to XYZ for me" to lay out a full itinerary and offer to buy the tickets and make the reservations.

Knowledge work is work most people don't really want to deal with. Ordinary people don't put much value into ideas regardless of their level of refinement

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krzykyesterday at 5:24 PM

There are people running OpenClaw, so yeah, crazy as it sounds, some do that.

I'm reluctant to run any model without at least a docker.

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phillmvyesterday at 8:07 PM

giving these things control over your actual computer is a nightmare waiting to happen – i think its irresponsible to encourage it. there ought to be a good real sandbox sitting between this thing and your data.

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bitmasher9yesterday at 11:22 PM

I don’t think clicking buttons on a Mac is a particularly scary barrier. It’s not anymore scary then running an LLM in agent mode with a very large number of auto-approve programs and walking away for 15 minutes.

andoandoyesterday at 6:59 PM

I want it yes. I already feel like Im the one doing the dumb work for the AI of manually clicking windows and typing in a command here or there it cant do.

Ive also been getting increasingly annoyed with how tedious it is to do the same repetitive actions for simple tasks.

naivyesterday at 6:43 PM

It repaired an astonishing messed up permission issue on my mac

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jpalomakiyesterday at 5:33 PM

I don’t think people want that, but they are willing to accept that in order to get stuff done.

avereveardyesterday at 8:07 PM

can't test pygame otherwise :D