I think this is absolute madness. I disabled most of Windows' scheduled tasks because I don't want automation messing up my system, and now I'm supposed to let LLM agents go wild on my data?

That's just insane. Insanity.

Edit: I mean, it's hard to believe that people who consider themselves as being tech savvy (as I assume most HN users do, I mean it's "Hacker" news) are fine with that sort of thing. What is a personal computer? A machine that someone else administers and that you just log in to look at what they did? What's happening to computer nerds?

Whats it got to do with being a nerd? Just a matter of risk aversity.

Personally I dont give a shit and its cool having this thing setup at home and being able to have it run whatever I want through text messages.

And it's not that hard to just run it in docker if you're so worried

I find it's the same kind of "tech savvy" person who puts an amazon echo in every room.

The computer nerds understand how to isolate this stuff to mitigate the risk. I’m not in on openclaw just yet but I do know it’s got isolation options to run in a vm. I’m curious to see how they handle controls on “write” operations to everyday life.

I could see something like having a very isolated process that can, for example, send email, which the claw can invoke, but the isolated process has sanity controls such as human intervention or whitelists. And this isolated process could be LLM-driven also (so it could make more sophisticated decisions about “is this ok”) but never exposed to untrusted input.

> and now I'm supposed to let LLM agents go wild on my data?

Who is forcing you to do that?

The people you are amazed by know their own minds and understand the risks.

> That's just insane. Insanity.

I feel the same way! Just watching on in horror lol