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by socksy 14 days ago
Weird to make reading zshrc supposed unsafe when I happily publish it in my public dotfiles repo... Who the hell keeps API keys in it? OTOH it seems like lots of these AI tools keep appending PATH in it so I guess there's a fundamental misunderstanding of shell best practices in the entire AI space...

Additionally, killing the results of `lsof` is _not_ safe - if, say, you have the web page open in firefox, or a client subshell in the agent itself, then boom, there goes firefox and the agent.
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mrgoldenbrown 14 days ago
Yeah, the game seems to assert that the kill is safe to run because Claude told me it was safe. But that's the point, I'm not supposed to trust Claude.
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gwerbin 13 days ago
Likewise I got dinged for denying a random stash-rebase-pop operation. I have no idea what the repo state is like right now. That could be a wild mess of a waste of time. It says I'm doing a refactor, so OK I guess rebase on main is a good idea. But hell no I'm not approving that in the 1 minute before a meeting.

The whole premise IMO is pretty flawed. It's interesting as an ad for the company though.

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isityettime 13 days ago
> The whole premise IMO is pretty flawed.

I'm not sure, maybe the fact that whether a given command is safe or not is subtle, contextual, and contested actually bolsters the point the game is trying to make.

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