AI coding agents' permission problem is becoming bigger than the model itself
Relevant-Potential17 · reddit · 2026-09-19
A developer argues that the key question for AI coding agents has shifted from "can the model write good code?" to "what happens when the agent can run code, access the repo, install packages and call external tools?"
Recent coding-agent security incidents, the author notes, make this feel less theoretical. The post asks the community whether they would grant an agent full access to their dev machine or keep it fully sandboxed.
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