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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have a question. I have tried Cursor and one more AI coding tool, and as far as I can remember, they always ask explicit permission before running a command in terminal. They can edit file contents without permission but creating new files and deleting any files requires the user to say yes to it.

Is Google not doing this? Or am I missing something?

[–] sanguinet@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

They can (unintentionally) obfuscate what they're doing.

I've seen the agent make scripts with commands that aren't immediately obvious. You could unknowingly say yes when it asks for confirmation, and only find out later when looking at the output.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

You can give cursor the permission to always run a certain command without asking (useful for running tests or git commands). Maybe they did that with rm?

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[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you give it permission to do it? No. Did you tell it not to do it? Also, no. See, there’s your problem. You forgot to tell it to not do something it shouldn’t be doing in the first place.

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[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

And windows want to go that way...

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even Google employees were instructed not to use this.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 1 week ago (11 children)
[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ironically D: is probably the face they were making when they realized what happened.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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