alt Hacker NewsOh, things are about to get worse with the new macOS "privacy/security" measures. They are going to curb agentic workflows even more. I don't know how Apple just finds new ways to annoy developers, but we're in a minority after all. Of 200 million Mac users, probably just up to 1 million are developers, and the rest are normies who can't tell when they should authorize or cancel the pop-up.
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It’s not about privacy, it’s about kneecapping competitors, just like when they blocked the advertising ID but exempted themselves from this because “Apple is not a third-party, we’re a second-party”.
Apple is an advertising company and thus inherently untrustworthy.
With LLMs, everyone's a developer now. Welcome to the mainstream.
Ah, if only that meant that there'll be less slop in the macOS code itself..
I'd argue that a lot of developers can't determine if an LLM generated command is actually safe or not.