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Comment by skiing_crawling | Hacker News Reader

I’m worried about giving a foreign hosted service access to my machine for a coding agent that can run arbitrary commands and read arbitrary files. Coding agent are much more useless if you have to sit there clicking approve on everything.

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To many of us, American models are also foreign-hosted, and in an increasingly hostile nation.

I guess I was speaking as an American, we have good domestically hosted options so although it’s probably not ideal to send this kind of data/control anywhere at all, it’s definitely a worse option for us to send it to china vs to an American company. Every user of this service has made their machines trivially exposed to become a botnet. Im wondering why I don’t see this angle more discussed in here.

Again I’m not saying you should trust an American company necessarily more than a Chinese one, but as an American, I probably can.

On the other hand, an American company can sell your chats to adtech/insurance/your government in ways that can harm you quite directly. Something worth considering.

As an American you should probably not trust them, because the giant American company has way more (legal or semi-legal) opportunities to manipulate your life than a Chinese one.

Good for you. So then you get it and also should distrust Chinese models for the same reason

>I’m worried about giving a foreign hosted service access to my machine...

So are the 96% of us humans that aren't USians.

Does my concern somehow become less valid because I'm American? Everyone should be thinking carefully about which of their data is going where.

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