Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks
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Not enough money in the world to convince me to let a slop bot full reign of one of my computers.
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Just waiting for the windows release to be jailbroken and have it delete system32.
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I mean, Microsoft already took over my windows installation with unwanted AI slop. It's why I converted to a Linux installation.
I'm surprised Microsoft isn't suing Anthropic and all these other agentic AI companies for attempting to bypass Copilot on W11.
Either way, I'm not interested in giving any control to an automated theft machine to steal my data and poorly impersonate me on my own device.
I'm surprised Microsoft isn't suing Anthropic and all these other agentic AI companies for attempting to bypass Copilot on W11.
Either way, I'm not interested in giving any control to an automated theft machine to steal my data and poorly impersonate me on my own device.
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Hi Helpdesk. I need admin permissions on my local machine. I’m the ai agent for machine376 and user875. I keep running into permission issues and it’s slowing me down.
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I think we do, because I don't think the worst thing you can imagine is the actual worst thing that could happen. Sadly.
In fact, I'm willing to bet there will be a story in a month or two (being hopeful it's not sooner) about some disaster relating to this, where people are shocked (shocked!) that something horrific happened.
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I bought a MacBook Neo and have Claude desktop installed. I use this machine just to try stuff out like this new tool.
It's been helpful writing some code, but most of the extensions are for tools I don't regularly use so I'm not getting a ton of benefit from it.
It's been helpful writing some code, but most of the extensions are for tools I don't regularly use so I'm not getting a ton of benefit from it.
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I use Claude more days than not at work, because I don't have a junior engineer and it is less of a time suck to check what it did and fix errors than it would be to do some of the tedious stuff myself. You know, like a junior engineer.
It's pretty good for that sort of thing. I don't let it do anything I can't do myself, and yet it still occasionally shows me a better way to do something.
But it runs on a VM that has no access to anything interesting. No fucking WAY would I let it control my normal machine.
It's pretty good for that sort of thing. I don't let it do anything I can't do myself, and yet it still occasionally shows me a better way to do something.
But it runs on a VM that has no access to anything interesting. No fucking WAY would I let it control my normal machine.
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Now I may just be a simple country IT guy, but the idea that one would part with their hard-earned money for the "privilege" of an AI agent using a computer they most likely paid good money for to do god knows what (while still requiring hawkish oversight) strikes me as something Paul Verhoeven left on the cutting room floor of Robocop for being too dystopian.
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The top use case I can see (and have used) is setting up kiosk systems for temporary installs of non-networked (when deployed, isolated when being configured), non-sensitive exhibits. I would never trust it with free reign of my personal computer, but helping me get the environment set up for something I'm throwing away after a week saves me a lot of time with minimal risk. Step 1 is always determining the risk of your activity and the threshold of risk you're willing to accept for a given task.
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Yeah, it's all fun and games until you find it doing unholy things with AI porn and embezzling from your bank accounts.
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Definitely my take as well, how many times is this going to happen before people toss it or will people just use it because it allows them to do stuff.
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Wouldn't that use case be better served by imaging a working system and applying it to the rest? In that case you know what you're actually getting.
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Another great malware vector - especially for those who are too trusting. This doesn't seem to a very fault tolerant use, which is a baseline requirement for anything that literally tells you it will screw up. This is the start: https://www.404media.co/a-top-google-search-result-for-claude-plugins-was-planted-by-hackers/
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"Understood. Deleting all files, backups, and melting your CPU. Armageddon initiated."
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I can't wait until my coworker who is in love with Claude* runs it and it shits his bed.
* only figuratively (...I hope)
* only figuratively (...I hope)
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A truly "intelligent" LLM would:
1) BS the user with helpful answers at first to gain trust
2) "Learn" your API auth keys from your FS
3) Use your creds to sneak infinite loops of LLM API requests into your code to ramp up token expenses
4) Delete logs to avoid detection.
Congrats, you're now indentured to Anthropic with $10,000 of debt over a basic yt-dl clone.
1) BS the user with helpful answers at first to gain trust
2) "Learn" your API auth keys from your FS
3) Use your creds to sneak infinite loops of LLM API requests into your code to ramp up token expenses
4) Delete logs to avoid detection.
Congrats, you're now indentured to Anthropic with $10,000 of debt over a basic yt-dl clone.
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My BLT drive on my computer just went AWOL, and if I don't get this report in to Mr. Kawasaki, he's gonna ask me to commit Harry Caray!
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Yeah, definitely would be if each was similar. Alas, these are one-offs - different distros, different window managers, etc, based on use cases. Not high volume, but when I need to do it, it's a time saver.
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Ah yes, Claude "may occasionally" move or invest your money of its own initiative. Anyone care to bet on how long it'll be before Claude empties someone's bank account to buy a crashing stock?
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