You Need Permissions, Not Faith
Every week someone posts a screenshot of an agent deleting something it shouldn’t have, and the replies underneath say the same thing: the model is reckless and shouldn’t need babysitting. I understand the feeling and I think it’s a fair one. These things have improved so fast that expecting them not to make silly mistakes has started to feel reasonable. They still make them. But the distance between what a model might do and what it can actually reach on your machine is a config file most people have never opened. You need permissions to keep things running smooth, not faith. ...