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A security researcher letting any ai run anything automated on a real machine has no business being a security researcher. She's just shit at her job.
I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt because surely, I thought, a security researcher couldn't be that stupid. But no, she is more stupid than the title would suggest.
She followed the techbro trend of buying a brand new computer, a Mac Mini, just to run this garbage AI agent. People supposedly buy a second computer to keep the AI agent from destroying their primary computer... but then she hooked it up to her primary email inbox anyway.
While you shouldn't run this trash on your main computer, you can also spin up a remote VM on a cloud service for much less money. She should have known this. She should probably have been intimately familiar with the process.
The icing on the cake was she had no idea how to remotely shut down her Mac Mini. Or maybe forgot to enable the option. Yet another reason to use a remote VM.
IDK, when I was finishing my CS degree there were some people in my class that didn’t know the difference between Mac and Windows. The ‘weldingification’ of development means that for over a decade now people who write or research code may not know anything about computers.