Most democrats worry more about the precise placement of cutlery rather than putting food on the plate. Not that the other party is better - they just take a chainsaw to the dining table and anyone they don't like.
I was suggesting to ask that question in a separate context, just as a means to understand the potential risks involved. I wouldn't ask this within a coding agent context.
Lately I've been asking a lot of these sorts of questions while setting up a sandboxed environment for my agents (generally, claude and pi). I was quite surprised to learn how many different ways there are to configure git run a script out of the .git directory. And the various AIs know all about this.
At this point my agents get read-only access to my .git directories.
Garage sale signs are a good example of this. The person making the sign knows what it says, so they can "read" it from farther away than someone who doesn't already know what it says.
It's not just a lack of interruptions or even the lack of potential interruptions, but that I can let my guard down knowing that I'm not inadvertently ignoring someone.
Copyright was created to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. The means to that are arbitrary and we have chosen a bad system that creates dictators who can create complex rules that diminish our cultural commons.
The death of copyright won't come from a sudden amputation of existing law, but by millions of tiny cuts made by the multitude of directives, conditions, and riders made by intellectual property megalomaniacs.
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