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[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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 20 points 11 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!"