Only if the user has configured it to bypass those authorizations.
With an agentic coding assistant, the LLM does not decide when it does and doesn’t prompt for authorization to proceed. The surrounding software is the one that makes that call, which is a normal program with hard guardrails in place. The only way to bypass the authorization prompts is to configure that software to bypass them. Many do allow that option, but of course you should only do so when operating in a sandbox.
The person in this article was a moron, that’s all there is to it. They ran the LLM on their live system, with no sandbox, went out of their way to remove all guardrails, and had no backup.
artyom@piefed.social 16 hours ago
As I said elsewhere, if you’re denying access to your agentic AI, what is the point of it? It needs access to complete agentic tasks.
No disagreement there.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yes, which it can prompt you for. Three options:
Deny everything
Prompt for approval when it needs to run a command or write a file
Allow everything
Obviously optional 1 is useless, but there’s nothing wrong with choosing option 2, or even option 3 if you run it in a sandbox where it can’t do any real-world damage.
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You can fine-grain nr. 2 even more: You can give access to e.g. modify files only in a certain sub-tree, or run only specific commands with only specific options.
A restrictive yet quite safe approach is to only permit e.g.
git add,git commit, and only allow changes to files under the VC. That effectively prevents any irreversible damage, without requiring you to manually approve all the time.artyom@piefed.social 16 hours ago
And therein lies the problem. You’re giving the LLM control over when to or not to ask for approval.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You clearly have absolutely zero experience here. When you’re prompted for access, it tells you the exact command that’s going to be run. You don’t just give blind approval to “run something”, you’re shown the exact command it’s going to run and you can choose to approve or reject it.