> ... I am absolutely not going to give shell access or data access to any agent. Certainly not with my permissions level.

Of course not.

To me it's on a server, in a VM. And they're not seeing the real data/databases from the actual projects: they're seeing fake infos used only while in the dev environment. There's no way I'm dumping, even for tests, the real or part of the real DB somewhere an AI can see it.

To find bugs (for example), AIs are useful but honestly for code generated by LLMs, I'm thinking about going back to the early copy/paste from the ChatGPT days: because I see so many horrors in the code output by the latest SOTA LLMs that every single line of code they spew has to be checked by someone who does know better.

It's not just an issue of protecting confidential data / preventing spying: we're all discovering that we've got serious sloppy-pasta code problems now.