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Is this really that surprising? It used to, still is?, be considered a bad idea to follow those install suggestion where it’s `/bin/bash -c $(curl example.com/i
by roxolotl 2y ago
Is this really that surprising? It used to, still is?, be considered a bad idea to follow those install suggestion where it’s `/bin/bash -c $(curl example.com/install.sh)`. These tools are basically that but even more risky because the code they generate is semi-random.
Of course you can evaluate everything it does before it does it. But no one reads the homebrew install script to make sure it’s safe when setting up a new Mac so who’s going to read the Claude code scripts?
- pacifika 2y agoWell actually now you could build a Gen Ai service that explains those scripts and link it from the download page so anyone can inspect it.
- namaria 2y agoThat's what I don't get about the current LLM coding/agent hype. The supposed gain is completely negated unless you can trust the output completely. If I have to inspect everything, generating a bunch of code/scripts or doing a lot of things/running a lot of commands quickly on my computer doesn't really help at all. The more things it does the more of a reasoning burden I have. What I think is completely missed is that the bottleneck in knowledge work is understanding and making sure about what is built and done.