Yeah, but I would never let an AI agent run commands on my machine without verifying each command. And at that point I would just rather copy and paste commands by hand, takes about the same time.

If the installation for example required creating some complicated host specific config files, then sure, I could see how that kind of a "runbook" could maybe be useful. But that doesn't seem to be the case here.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I would never let an AI agent run commands on my machine without verifying each command.

I would never let an AI agent run commands on my machine, period.

Because that's how you get "You're absolutely right. I did make a mistake when I deleted your entire /home and /backups directories while executing that command. Great job noticing the error!"

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org -5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

honestly if your backup folder is on the same machine as your home folder you deserve everything that comes your way

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 12 points 8 hours ago

Regardless of where your backup folder is, your machine needs writable access to it in order to make new backups.

And if an AI agent has root-level access on your machine (needs root to install things), then it will be able to access that backup folder and potentially be able to delete its contents.