The new coding agent from Anthropic is both exciting and terrifying. I immediately wanted to try it, and then realized I’m not touching it until I have my dev environment running from within a VM and off my laptop. If an AI agent can analyze my project codebase and offer to help with all kinds of things, what’s the stop it from just branching out and analyzing my entire computer? There’s no sandbox by default for your laptop, and an AI agent seems like it could be the ultimate malware.
Do I really enjoy the thought of an AI agent giving me dev superpowers? Yes. Do I trust a for profit company to restrict its usage and not mine my laptop for personal information that can be used and sold? Nope.