Why does the agentic side of the tool grant that level of access to the LLM in the first place? I feel like Google and their competition should feel responsibility to implement their own layer of sandboxing here.
And then everyone is surprised when newbies take this advice at face value.
I also tried running Linux in a VM but the graphics performance and key mapping was driving me nuts. Maybe I need to be more patient in addressing that.
For now I run a dev account as a standard user with fast user switching, and I don’t connect the dev account to anything important (eg icloud).
Coming from Windows/Linux, I was shocked by how irritating it is to get basic stuff working e.g. homebrew in this setup. It seems everybody just YOLOs dev as an admin on their Macs.