That’s basically Google’s search moat too.

No, Google was 10x better than any competitor until they started actively sabotaging their search product in the past 5 years or so.

ChatGPT feels like an inferior product when compared to Claude or Qwen.

> You don't sell investors on an endeavor for 10s of billions of dollars with the endgame being "sell ads".

Google is a multi trillion dollar ads company. So is meta.

Don’t underestimate ads.

For Caude Code, Antigrav, etc, do people really just let an LLM loose on their own personal system?

I feel like these should run in a cloud enviroment, or at least on some specific machine where I don't care what it does.

That's also why I don't use these tools that much. You have big AI companies, known for harvesting humongous amount of data, illegally, not disclosing datasets. And they you give them control of your computer, without any way to cleanly audit what's going in and out. It's seriously insane to me that most developers seem to not care about that. Like, we've all been educated to not push any critical info to a server (private key and other secrets), but these tools do just that, and you can't even trust what it's gonna be used for. On top of that, it's also giving your only value (writing good code) to a third party company that will steal it to replace you with it.

We went 10 years backward security wise since the arrival of GPT 3.5 :/

Can't speak to Claude Code/Desktop, but any of the products that are VS Code forks have workspace restrictions on what folders they're allowed to access (for better and worse). Other products (like Warp terminal) that can give access to the whole filesystem come with pre-set strict deny/allow lists on what commands are allowed to be executed.

It's possible to remove some of these restrictions in these tools, or to operate with flags that skip permissions checks, but you have to intentionally do that.

Talking about VS Code itself (with Copilot), I have witnessed it accessing files referenced from within a project folder but stored outside of it without being given explicit permission to, so I am pretty sure it can leak information and potentially even wreak havoc outside its boundaries.

except that if you give shell access, you aren't really protected from Gemini 2.5 Pro going "mad" and starting rm -rf stuff or writing some shady Perl scripts.

(Co-creator here) This is one of the use cases for Leash.

https://github.com/strongdm/leash

Check it out, feedback is welcome!

Previously posted description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883210

I think a problem is that a lot of people are working on terrible systems, because honestly, what you're asking doesn't even make sense to me.

Both Antigravity and Claude Code ask for permission before running terminal commands.

Is it impossible for them to mess up your system? No. But it does not seem likely.

I only ever run it in a podman developer container.

Yolo.

yes, the majority of people do.

When we have sentient robots running around doing our bidding, I wonder what we'll call them.

We already call them slaves, but with a Czech loanword.

It's generally best to update both in tandem.

Simple interpreters have been written hundreds of thousands of times and are standard in any programming language class.

In other words, LLMs eat this up.

You’ll find imperial units in lots of Chinese products too.

After all, they’re the ones manufacturing the imperial screws, etc.

I made $60K since launching a year ago, after 4 years of full time development.

I feel delusional that I still want to keep working on it.

I guess we’ll see how year 2 post-launch goes.

You just need to limit your expenses more.

It’s possible to live on $1000/month in the USA if you have a shared bedroom, dine-in, and skip medical insurance.

Medical insurance is a basic necessity. Advising someone to skip that is irresponsible and degrading.

I would only 100% agree if this person had dependents (that medically rely upon his benefits).

I live on about twice that in a mid-sized US city. Own my car, rent in below-average part of town.

$1000/mo? Pff, that is luxury. Live on the streets, dumpster dive, forage and hunt for food, eat every other day, and you can get that down to $0. If you really need income you can take up sex work. $1000/mo, imagine!

The "just stop eating avocado toast" advice is neither helpful nor thoughtful, friend.

That’s not “just stop eating avocado toast” advice. It’s advice to cut extremely high expenses.

Avocado toast advice is dumb because it’s an expense that doesn’t move the needle.

Cutting medical insurance, for example, is a good way to end up medically bankrupt and lose anything you’ve ever saved if anything goes wrong. And by the time someone hits 40, chances are something has gone wrong.

you mean give it away for free? how would he require payment?